Smoke powder - Enpun

...However, the division is not clear and several interpretations are possible, but the three genres of "novels", "sermons" and "historical texts" are common to all interpretations. Novels, also known as "Yinzier", are short stories that tell various stories from the common people, and depending on the content, they are further divided into Yanfen (romance stories), ghost stories, legends, koan (trial stories), and Tekkier (military stories). The "Drunken Tales," which is thought to be the source of novels from the Song and Yuan dynasties, lists 107 titles of novels from that time, and the "Qingping Shan Tang Huaben" and "Sanyan" from the Ming dynasty were adapted from the storybooks of novels from the Song and Yuan dynasties.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "smoke powder" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…ただし，その分け方は明確さを欠き，いくつかの解釈が可能であるが，〈小説〉〈説経〉〈講史書〉の3家は，どの解釈によっても共通する。　小説は一名〈銀字児〉ともいい，市井のさまざまな物語を語る短編の話で，内容によって，さらに煙粉(恋愛物)，霊怪，伝奇，公案(裁判物)，鉄騎児(軍記物)などに細分される。宋･元代の小説の種本とおぼしい《酔翁談録》には，当時の小説の題目107種が列挙されており，また明代の《清平山堂話本》や《三言》は，宋･元代の小説の話本をもとに改作したものである。…

※「煙粉」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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