Song

Japanese: うたがたり
Song

...a literary term that describes a style of storytelling in the mid-Heian period. It has two meanings. One appears early in Eiga Monogatari (Asaryoku) and means a short story related to a song, and is thought to be almost the same content as the oral tales called utagatari at the time. The second is a new usage in modern times. While the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and the Tale of Utsubo have long been called tsukushimonogatari (fictional stories), the new term is used to distinguish between the three works The Tale of Ise, The Tale of Yamato, and The Tale of Heichu. This term was created for the convenience of writing literary history.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "utagatari" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…平安中期の物語の一様式をあらわす文学用語。語彙としては二義あり,一つは早く《栄華物語》(〈浅緑〉)にもみえ,歌にまつわる小話の意で,当時〈うたがたり〉と呼ばれた口承説話とほぼ同一内容のものと思われる。二つは近代に入ってからの新しい用法で,《竹取物語》《宇津保物語》などを〈作り物語〉と古くから呼んできたのに対して,《伊勢物語》《大和(やまと)物語》《平中(へいちゆう)物語》の三つを新しく区別して呼んだのであり,文学史記述の便宜から生じた用語である。…

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