Tales from the Tang Dynasty

Japanese: 唐物語 - からものがたり

A collection of tales based on Chinese stories adapted into a song-tale style. One volume. Consists of 27 chapters. The date of its creation is unknown, but it may have been the end of the Heian period. Some say that the author was Fujiwara no Shigenori. Many of the stories are about familiar figures who were quoted in tales and other stories. The original sources include the Collected Works of Bai Juyi and many other Chinese books, but many parts are thought to have been based on similar books such as the Mengqiu.

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Japanese:

中国の話をもとに歌物語風に翻案した説話集。１巻。27篇からなる。成立年代未詳だが，平安時代末か。作者に藤原成範をあてる説もある。説話・物語などに引用され，親しまれていた人物に関する話が多い。原拠として《白氏文集》をはじめ多数の漢籍があげられるが，《蒙求》などの類書に依った部分も多いと考えられる。

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