The Gikeiki (義経記) or Chronicle of Yoshitsune is a Japanese gunki monogatari ("war-tale") that focuses on the legends of Minamoto no Yoshitsune and his...

Kurosawa in the 1945 movie The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail. The Gikeiki, or "Chronicle of Yoshitsune" relates events of Yoshitsune's life after...

others, are featured largely in the Heike Monogatari (Tale of Heike), Gikeiki (Chronicle of Yoshitsune), and a number of plays of various traditions...

Nihon Shoki, etc.) and the Genji-Heike Cycle (The Tale of the Heike, Gikeiki about Minamoto no Yoshitsune, etc.). Also popular are the Soga Brothers...

a legendary Japanese monk and warrior from the 1100s who appeared in "Gikeiki" (a military epic about the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune) written in...

Yoshitsune may refer to: Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159–1189) Gikeiki, a Japanese chronicle, sometimes known in English by Helen Craig McCullough's translated...

legend. Many of the detailed anecdotes and stories of Benkei are from the Gikeiki, an even later 14th-century work. As no contemporary records of Benkei...

the renowned Fujiwara regent. Military chronicles and stories about war. Gikeiki (The Tale of Yoshitsune) Heiji Monogatari (The Tale of Heiji) Heike Monogatari...

Gosannen Ki Kamakura Hogen monogatari Heiji monogatari Heike monogatari Jokyuki Taiheiki Muromachi Meitokuki Gikeiki Soga monogatari Edo Kōyō Gunkan Taikōki...

Province. The name "Kawaguchi" appears in the Kamakura period chronicle Gikeiki, but it is not proven that this name designated current area of Kawaguchi...

history in Japanese literature, being featured in writings such as the Gikeiki and Oku no Hosomichi. (in Japanese) Ministry of Environment (in Japanese)...

tales from the past), Kojidan 古事談 (Japanese collection of Setsuwa 説話), and Gikeiki 義経記 (War tale that focuses on the legends of Minamoto no Yoshitsune 源義経...

saving his master Yoshitsune's life at Yoshino, a story recorded in the Gikeiki. The story has become somewhat legendary over the years. Whilst travelling...

warrior-priest Benkei, was told in the Heike Monogatari (Tale of the Heike) and the Gikeiki (Story of Yoshitsune), and retold many times in plays and prints. This...

reason Sōjōbō trains Yoshitsune in martial arts is to start a war. In the Gikeiki, a text concerning the life of Yoshitsune, Sōjōgatani or Bishop's valley...

Province. Minamoto no Yoshitsune's gunki monogatari ("war-tale"), the Gikeiki, probably written in the Nanboku-chō period, mentions the landing of a...

Masukagami (1374?) Taiheiki (late 14th century) Baishōron (Muromachi period) Gikeiki (Muromachi period) Sandaiki (early Muromachi period) Soga Monogatari (early...

his faithful retainer Benkei, as was celebrated in the medieval account Gikeiki. In 1683, the 4th daimyō of Sendai Domain, Date Tsunamura built a memorial...

Daisen-Oki National Park Daisen-Oki National Park Daisen-Oki National Park "Gikeiki". Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. Archived from the original...

based on The Tale of the Heike, the Taiheiki, The Tale of the Soga and the Gikeiki (The Tale of Yoshitsune); tales of foreign countries, based on the Konjaku...

pledge of allegiance to Yoritomo, and this letter was translated from the Gikeiki in 1966 by Helen Craig McCullough for her book Yoshitsune: A 15th Century...

retainers. The text of the work has been connected to a passage in the Gikeiki, and it is a sequel to the kōwaka Yashima. The libretto survives in a single...

novelettes which centered around tragic love stories; and Gozen Gikeiki (A New Gikeiki for His Lordship, 1700), which was a fictional parody of fourteenth...

Gosannen Ki Kamakura Hogen monogatari Heiji monogatari Heike monogatari Jokyuki Taiheiki Muromachi Meitokuki Gikeiki Soga monogatari Edo Kōyō Gunkan Taikōki...

Monogatari, which recounts the conflict of the Soga brothers, and the Gikeiki, which is focused on the life of the hero Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Ichiko...

Awa Province. Minamoto no Yoshitsune's gunki monogatari war tale, the Gikeiki mentions the landing of a boat party on Cape Sunosaki at the southern end...

and supply water for industrial purposes. In the third chapter of the Gikeiki, which dates to the 14th century, the Koito River is called the "Sue River"...