Children of Hachiman

309 pp. "Dramatizes the life of 12th-century Samurai warrior Minamoto Yoshitsune, a renowned hero from Japanese history." "...the story of three Minamoto brothers whose outstanding talents combined to make the eldest the ruler of Japan, but whose mutual antagonisms and rivalries eventually led in personal terms to death and ruin. Above all, it is the story of the meteoric career of the youngest, Yoshitsune, a military genius raised secretly by warlike Buddhist monks to be the brilliant leader of the Minamoto armies.