2015 Volume 64 Issue 7 Pages 46-56
The episode of Minamoto-no-Yorimasa's uprising triggered by a quarrel over a horse is differently treated in each edition of Heike-monogatari. Both the Kakuichi-bon edition and Genpeiseisui-ki set the episode in the beginning of the story, but each narrates it from a different perspective. While the former features Yorimasa and his colleagues to tell the story on the subjective basis, the latter describes the riot from a bird's eye view to explain its historical meaning. Thus the same spatial arrangement of the episode makes outstanding a difference in historical outlook between the two editions.
