Saturday, June 27, 2015

Yoshitsune Minamoto Anecdote3




The Ushiwaka-maru and Benkei

The Ushiwaka-maru is a childhood name of Yoshitsune.

This is an episode extracted from the book called "the description of Yoshitsune(Gikeiki)" written about Yoshitsune Minamoto.

Yoshitsune confronted a destruction monk called Benkei Musashibo at the age of 19 years old on Gojo-Ohashi of Kyoto.

Benkei was a priest of Mt. Hiei-zan.

However, he was the tall man who had a figure strange by nature and a violent property.

The Benkei challenged peoples to a fight in those days when he accused people via Gojo-Ohashi unjustly.

He took the sword of the loser when he won and collected it.

He was doing to take one thousand swords away with a target.

The Benkei obtained 999 swords without a defeat.

He established the thin good-looking boy who came over alone at a certain summer night with the last game.

The Benkei thought that it was an easy victory.

However, a boy is too light, and there is no point.

The Benkei was defeated by him after all without pouring the first attack.

The boy was Yoshitsune.

Benkei became a faithful subordinate of Yoshitsune by this defeat.


Yoshitsune stays in the Koromogawa buildidng in last moments and will kill himself.

Benkei fought against an enemy in front of a door of the Koromogawa building at time.

And he continued receiving a large quantity of arrows to a whole body and died with standing.

The story of "Benkei's Standing Death" is very famous.


★Warrior doll Yoshitsune★

★Japanese doll Benkei★