Genpei Touma Den/Walkthrough

This game's score display uses Kanji numerals instead of Arabic ones, which were later reused in Mirai Ninja for the player's life meter. For those of you who cannot read them, here is what they mean: 〇 = 0, 一 = 1, 二 = 2, 三 = 3, 四 = 4, 五 = 5, 六 = 6, 七 = 7, 八 = 8, 九 = 9. For those of you wondering where Emma-O and Amaterasu appear in this game, here is the answer: Emma-O, God of the Underworld, appears at the end of the "Pit Stage" that you end up in if you fall down a hole, and he will decide Kagekiyo's fate when one of the eight Tsuzura surrounding him is opened. The result of this action is usually an instant death, but he will sometimes choose to transport Kagekiyo to the next stage instead.

Sun Goddess Amaterasu, however, appears in the "Bonus Stages" that can be reached by travelling to certain locations on the map. She flies around at the top of the screen dropping powerups on Kagekiyo, who has to collect as many as he can before the music ends (especially the brown ones that can only be found on this stage as they will increase his energy capacity).

There is a safer way of escaping the "Pit Stage" if you have the maximum amount of Zeni (99) - by walking into the pool of lava, you will be transported to the stage where the creepy old woman seen at the start of the game speaks for the second time. She will also have a different message for you - and because the first cobweb in the "Pit Stage" never stops generating Skull Spiders until it is destroyed, it is a good way to get the extra Zeni required to escape.

Stage 1 (Small Mode)
Once Kagekiyo has fallen to the ground after materializing in mid-air, start running to the right and jump up to get the Makimono. After this, you will encounter a couple of webs generating Skull Spiders. These webs will disappear once they have generated three spiders each (but if you can destroy them before they have done so, they will leave an Inochi behind), and the spiders themselves will each leave a Zeni behind when killed. There will also be another Makimono above you, so jump up to get it after you have killed all the Skull Spiders. Soon after, there will be three Yari Gaikotsu (which will each leave a Zeni behind when killed), and three Skull Spider-generating webs which are low enough to be destroyed before they have generated their required quota of spiders. In order to reach the third and final Makimono on this stage, you have to jump onto the "Kanameishi" that is moving up and down (the bottom part of which can cause injury to Kagekiyo), then make a big leap from the top of its height to destroy another Skull Spider-generating web. Just before the torii, there is a Gaki Generator which will disappear after it has spawned ten of them - but like the webs, it will leave an Inochi behind if you can destroy it before it has spawned its required quota. Once Kagekiyo has entered the torii, he will be transported to the next stage.