• 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...
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    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...
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    others, are featured largely in the Heike Monogatari (Tale of Heike), Gikeiki (Chronicle of Yoshitsune), and a number of plays of various traditions...
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  • Yoshitsune may refer to: Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159–1189) Gikeiki, a Japanese chronicle, sometimes known in English by Helen Craig McCullough's translated...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    the renowned Fujiwara regent. Military chronicles and stories about war. Gikeiki (The Tale of Yoshitsune) Heiji Monogatari (The Tale of Heiji) Heike Monogatari...
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    Gosannen Ki Kamakura Hogen monogatari Heiji monogatari Heike monogatari Jokyuki Taiheiki Muromachi Meitokuki Gikeiki Soga monogatari Edo Kōyō Gunkan Taikōki...
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    Province. The name "Kawaguchi" appears in the Kamakura period chronicle Gikeiki, but it is not proven that this name designated current area of Kawaguchi...
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    history in Japanese literature, being featured in writings such as the Gikeiki and Oku no Hosomichi. (in Japanese) Ministry of Environment (in Japanese)...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Masukagami (1374?) Taiheiki (late 14th century) Baishōron (Muromachi period) Gikeiki (Muromachi period) Sandaiki (early Muromachi period) Soga Monogatari (early...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Daisen-Oki National Park Daisen-Oki National Park Daisen-Oki National Park "Gikeiki". Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. Archived from the original...
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  • novelettes which centered around tragic love stories; and Gozen Gikeiki (A New Gikeiki for His Lordship, 1700), which was a fictional parody of fourteenth...
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    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...
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    Province. Minamoto no Yoshitsune's gunki monogatari ("war-tale"), the Gikeiki, probably written in the Nanboku-chō period, mentions the landing of a...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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"...
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    Gosannen Ki Kamakura Hogen monogatari Heiji monogatari Heike monogatari Jokyuki Taiheiki Muromachi Meitokuki Gikeiki Soga monogatari Edo Kōyō Gunkan Taikōki...
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    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...
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