"Flower of the Sea" - Kaijo Karetsuden

Japanese: 《海上花列伝》 - かいじょうかれつでん
"Flower of the Sea" - Kaijo Karetsuden

… The unique characters used to write the Suzhou dialect were established early on, giving rise to dialect literature. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, there have been many plays, novels, and lyric books written in the Suzhou dialect. The most famous of these is the novel Kaishō retsūden (The Tale of Flowers on the Sea) (by Han Bangqing, 1894; translated by Tatsuo Ota, 1969), in which all the dialogue is written in pure Suzhou. …

*Some of the terminology used in "Floral Tales of the Sea" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 蘇州語においては,方言を表記する独特な文字が早くから定着していたので,方言文学を生んでいる。明・清以降,蘇州方言を用いた作品は戯曲,小説,弾詞本など数多くあるが,なかでも小説《海上花列伝》(韓邦慶作,1894。太田辰夫訳,1969)は最も有名で,対話の部分がすべて純粋な蘇州語で書かれている。…

※「《海上花列伝》」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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