Among the Yoshitsune legends, especially famous stories is the story of his encounter with Musashibo Benkei at Gojo-ohashi Bridge, the anecdote that he learned strategy by stealing ancient Chinese strategy books, "Rikuto" and "Sanraku" owned by Onmyoji (diviner) Hogen KIICHI, making use of a love affair with his daughter, and the legend of Musashibo Benkei's Standing Death in the Battle of Koromogawa, and they were extended widely through "Gikeiki," which is said to have been written in the early Muromachi period, 200 years after Yoshitsune's death.
義経伝説の中でも特に有名な武蔵坊弁慶との五条大橋での出会い、陰陽師鬼一法眼の娘と通じて伝家の兵書『六韜』『三略』を盗み出して学んだ話、衣川合戦での武蔵坊弁慶弁慶の立ち往生伝説などは、死後200年後の室町時代初期の頃に成立したといわれる『義経記』を通じて世上に広まった物語である。