This week, we cover how the legend of Yoshitsune as told in Gikeiki describes his demise. Which is how his tale ends, unless of course you know the truth: that Yoshitsune actually escaped to Hokkaido, became a god, and then left for the mainland to become Genghis Khan.
Wait, what?
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
Schmid, Sarah Rebecca. “The Survival of Minamoto no Yoshitsune: A Mythological Narrative in Edo Period Historiography.” Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, 45:151-173
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