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Yoshitsune : a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle / translated and with an introduction by Helen Craig McCullough.

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Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Minamoto, Yoshitsune, 1159-1189.

Samurai -- Japan -- Biography.

Generals -- Japan -- Biography.

Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185.

9780804702706 (hbk.)

viii, 367 pages : maps ; 24 cm

"This anonymous work, now translated into English for the first time, is a biography of Minamoto Yoshitsune (1159-1189), probably the single most famous figure in Japanese history. Thanks to the attractive character of Yoshitsune himself, and to the intensely dramatic quality of his story, the Yoshitsune legend has been a living part of the Japanese cultural tradition since the thirteenth century. The present work, which is the basic repository of information about Yoshitsune, has served as the main source for the thousands of noh plays, kabuki plays, novels, stories, poems, and motion pictures that have been devoted to this most romantic of Japanese heroes. The work itself also occupies a secure place in Japanese literary history as an unsual variant of the medieval "war tale" genre. An extensive Introduction provides a strictly historical biography of Yoshitsune, examines the legend as a whole (including elements missing from Yoshitsune), and discusses the relationship between the book and legend"--Page [4] of cover.

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