Return to the Countryside - Kidenroku

...As the preface states, "If it records facts, explores physics, clarifies doubts, offers warnings, adopts customs, and encourages conversation, then it is written." Unlike "strange stories" and "legendary stories," these are stories that attempt to record fragments of events, historical research, lessons, and folk customs as they are, such as Zhao Lin's "Ene-Hu Lu" from the Tang Dynasty, Wang Dingbao's "Tang Xuan-Yu" from the Five Dynasties, and Ouyang Xiu's "Return to the Countryside" from the Song Dynasty. [Uchiyama Tomoya]...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "The Record of Return to the Countryside" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…その自序にいうように〈事実を紀し物理を探り疑惑を弁じ勧戒を示し風俗を採り談笑を助くるは則ち之を書す〉という態度で記録されたもの。〈志怪小説〉〈伝奇小説〉とは異なり，事件の断片･考証･教訓･民俗などをありのままに記そうとするもので，唐の趙璘（ちようりん）の《因話録》，五代の王定保の《唐摭言（とうせきげん）》，宋の欧陽修の《帰田録》などがある。【内山 知也】。…

※「《帰田録》」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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