His life had also been gradually talked about as a heroic story, and various fictional stories and legends had been added one after another, creating a very different portrait of Yoshitsune from reality.
また、義経の生涯は英雄視されて語られるようになり、次第に架空の物語や伝説が次々と付加され、史実とは大きくかけ離れた義経像が形成された。