YOSHITSUNE

A Fifteenth-Century Japanese Chronicle

Translated by Helen Craig McCullough

 Stanford University Press, 1971 - isbn:  9780804702706

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... The Yoshitsune legend has been a living part of the japanese cultural tradition since the thirteenth century...

The present work (...) has served as the main source for the thousand oh noh palys, kabuki plays, novels, stories and poems that have been devoted to this most romantic  of Japanese heroes...