Onmyōza Hyakumonogatari Story VI "Yoshitsune: Nightmare Ablaze"

(Muma Enjō begins at 14:50) 

(Note: The same text is used as the preface for Muma Enjō that is included in the Garyō Tensei album booklet)

    Intently yearning for his brother's love, Yoshitsune defeats the Tairas just like his brother Yoritomo had hoped. Due to the machinations of Yoritomo and his close advisers, instead of a war hero, Yoshitsune ends up being branded as a rebel.
    While his miraculous services in war earn him the popularity and trust of the people in the capital, at the same time, he is thoroughly disdained by most of the generals in Kamakura because of his childish behavior. For Yoritomo he was becoming an insurmountable nightmare. Yoritomo's resolution to get rid of Yoshitsune only grows stronger as his younger brother appears in his dreams night after night.
    Unwilling to believe that his brother is plotting against him, Yoshitsune reluctantly leaves the capital only after there is an attempt on his life. Although he succeeds in escaping with the help of Fujiwara of Ōshū, Yoshitsune becomes separated with Shizuka Gozen in the mountains of Yoshino. Shizuka, having a premonition that this would be their final farewell, weeps and shrieks in her heart.
    Afterwards, Shizuka is captured by Yoritomo, and although her life is spared thanks to the beauty of her dance, Yoritomo, worried of retribution by Yoshitsune's offspring, cruelly murders the child she is pregnant with.
    Meanwhile, having barely escaped to Ōshū where he is given shelter by Fujiwara No Hidehira, Yoshitsune is eventually attacked at night by Hidehira's son Yasuhira, who betrays Yoshitsune after his father passes away.
    Then finally, in his Takadachi mansion at Koromogawa that has been set ablaze, Yoshitsune, a broken man, decides to take his own life.

陰陽座百物語　第陸話「義経～夢魔炎上」

　兄頼朝の愛が欲しい一心で兄の思惑通り平家討伐を果たした義経は、頼朝とその側近の謀略により「戦功者」ではなく「謀反者」の汚名を着せられる。
　その神懸った戦功により都の人々の人気と信頼を一心に浴び、反面、その子供じみた挙動により鎌倉の諸将から絶大なる拒絶を受ける義経は、もはや頼朝にとっては如何ともしがたい「夢魔」そのものであり、毎夜枕元に現れる弟の夢魔に、「義経討つべし」という意志を一層固める頼朝であった。
　兄の謀略を信じたくない義経も、命を狙われるまでに至って懊悩しながらもようやく都を落ち、奥州の藤原氏を頼って逃げるも、吉野の山中で連れ立っていた静御前と生き別れになる。静はそのとき、本能的にこれが今生の別れとなってしまうことを予感し、心中で嘆き、喚く。
　静はその後頼朝に捕らえれるが、舞の素晴らしさに命だけは助けられるも、身体に宿した義経の子は、仇討ちを憂う頼朝によって無惨にも殺されてしまう。
　一方、辛くも奥州にて身を潜めていた義経も、それを匿う藤原秀衡の死後、その子泰衡が頼朝を恐れて寝返り、夜討ちをかけられる。
　遂に義経は、炎上する衣川の高館で失意の中自害を決意するのであった。