Samurai rising: the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

Disaster in Kyoto: Kyoto, 1160 CE

Headless ghosts: Kurama, 1160-1174 CE

Samurai boot camp: Hiraizumi, 1174-1180 CE

Brothers-in-arms: Kamakura, 1180-1184 CE

Perilous river: Kyoto, 1184 CE

Midnight strike: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE

Hooves like hailstones: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE

Into the storm: Kyoto, Shikoku, and Yashima, 1184-1185 CE

The dropped bow: Yashima, 1185 CE

The drowned sword: Dan-no-Ura, 1185 CE

Assassins in the dark: Dan-no-Ura, Kyoto, and Koshigoe, 1185 CE

Shizuka's song: Kyoto, Kamakura, and the Yoshino Mountains, 1185-1186 CE

The fugitive: locations unknown, 1185-1187 CE

Feast of arrows: Hiraizumi, 1187-1189 CE

Epilogue: the Samurai weeps.