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Stories concerning Minamoto no Yoshitsune, one of Japan's best known and most tragic heroes, are numerous and varied. From his birth to his death, nearly every episode of Yoshitsune's life has been retold in war tales, histories, and plays. One of the major and most influential retellings of the Yoshitsune legend is found in Gikeiki, a text from the fifteenth century. This study looks at the early period of the legend and specifically focuses on the Kibune episode, when Yoshitsune lived and trained at Kurama Temple. It provides a new translation of the episode as told in Gikeiki and discusses the different portrayals of Yoshitsune within the Gikeiki textual lineage and in previous and subsequent works of literature. The thesis also takes a brief look at the development of Gikeiki texts; it shows the malleability of the Yoshitsune legend and the Gikeiki text and discusses the implications that this malleability has on our understanding of the place of Gikeiki and the legend of Yoshitsune within the medieval Japanese cultural consciousness.
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- The lineage of emotions in medieval Japan: a textual analysis of Yoshitsune's Kibune episode
Contributors
- Merrill, Edward (Author)
- Creamer, John (Thesis advisor)
- Ling, Xiaoqiao (Committee member)
- Zuo, Yu (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2014
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- thesisPartial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2014
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 49-50)
- Field of study: Asian languages and civilizations
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by Edward Merrill