Talk:Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Project Assessment
A fine start, but surprisingly short considering the prominence of Yoshitsune in Japanese culture and history. Needs expansion of historical narrative, as well as attention to his treatment in the countless traditional tales and plays in which he features. Maybe I'll come back to this when I have a chance... LordAmeth 16:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I am changing the importance to "High" (from "Top") and I've noted this at WikiProject Japan/Importance. If you'd like to reelevate it, feel free to comment over there. There are only about 50 top-importance articles listed now, and I'm not confident that this is one of the 50 most important articles we are working on. Dekimasu よ! 11:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

How's it hangan?
Can somebody who actually reads Japanese include a translation of that? Trekphiler (talk) 18:36, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Inspect the translation that I have been sporadically working on (based off the 源義経 featured article version) here. It has wild inaccuracies due to my incompetences, but I think it has plenty that’s worth noting, and quite a bit that could use merging into this article. I personally don’t see how the Japanese article got featured status, though; I think it wanders quite a bit and does not present the facts sequentially enough. It’s certainly not worth the copy-paste treatment – Yoshitsune may be the greatest of the samurai to some, but a lot of the article would be just plain trivial for an English encyclopedia’s purposes. -BRPXQZME (talk) 08:06, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The common phrase is hōgan bīki (判官びいき) which means favoritism towards Yoshitsune and other underdogs or those fallen from grace.
 * I see it explained here the position/rank ja:判官 is read as hangan, but when you want to use this title to refer to Yoshitsune it is read "hōgan", due to it being a proper noun sort of usage. --Kiyoweap (talk) 14:22, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Popular Culture Addition
Given the overall themes of Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Wester Django, I would think that the Yoshitsune character in that film is based on the historical figure. The entire film deals with a conflict between the Genji and Heike clans. I won't add it as I'm not sure if this is really the case. It seems likely though. 69.204.205.190 (talk) 06:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Legend about his identification with Genghis Khan
Here are some sources: http://books.google.it/books?id=I-Hwlni30KgC&pg=PA20&dq=%22Minamoto+Yoshitsune+to+Gen+Gikyo%22&hl=it&sa=X&ei=b5SKUb3fBoO7Pe_QgdAD&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Minamoto%20Yoshitsune%20to%20Gen%20Gikyo%22&f=false http://books.google.it/books?id=Pl_7PollB60C&pg=PA330&dq=%22Ho+proof+can+be+given+for+the+assumption.%22&hl=it&sa=X&ei=p5CKUfHNDqmP7AbDk4G4Bg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Ho%20proof%20can%20be%20given%20for%20the%20assumption.%22&f=false --151.41.236.64 (talk) 18:14, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Additional Pop Culture references
Yoshitsune appears as the main character in a pair of video games, Genji: Days of the Blade, and Genji: Dawn of the Samurai. This info appears on the Pop Culture section of Benkei's page (he is a starring character along with Yoshitsune), so I would imagine some of it can just be cut from his article.

I'd do it myself, but I've never set up a new subsection of a page before, and don't want to screw something up. Daft Inquisitor (talk) 20:15, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

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Persona 5 question
The answer is Heian even though Kawakama is correct too Baconcartoonist (talk) 23:21, 13 June 2023 (UTC)