This week, we come to the text that more than any other helps build the Yoshitsune legend: Gikeiki. Here, at long last, we see the legend of Yoshitsune taking a form that a modern audience might recognize–and in the process, beginning to diverge pretty substantially (though not entirely) from the historical record.
Sources
Tyler, Royall. The Take of the Heike
McCullough, Helen Craig. The Tale of the Heike
McCullough, Helen Craig. Yoshitsune: A 15th Century Japanese Epic
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