Military Chronicles - Gunki

Japanese: 軍記 - ぐんき

Also known as a war tale. A narrative literature that deals with a certain era with war as its theme. Historical literature. Unlike "historical tales," it focuses on the emergence of samurai and the resulting upheaval. It is preceded by the Heian period's Masakado-ki and Mutsu-waki, and includes medieval works such as Hogen Monogatari, Heiji Monogatari, Heike Monogatari, Genpei Seisuiki, Jokyu-ki, Taiheiki, and Meitoku-ki. Many of them are written in a Japanese-Chinese style and were also written as narratives. The authors are generally unknown, and the originals are often further expanded and revised in the process of being told, so there are many variant versions. Similar works include a group of heroic biographies with a strong personal color, such as Yoshitsune-ki, Soga Monogatari, Nobunaga-koki, and Taiko-ki.
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Japanese:

戦記物語とも。戦乱を主題としてある一時代を扱った叙事文学。歴史文学。〈歴史物語〉と異なって，武士の登場とそれによる動乱を主題とする。平安時代の《将門記》《陸奥話記》等を先駆とし，中世の《保元物語》《平治物語》《平家物語》《源平盛衰記》《承久記》《太平記》《明徳記》等をさす。多く和漢混淆(こんこう)文で，語り物としても行われた。おおむね作者は不明で，語られる過程などで原作がさらに増補改修されることが多く，異本が多い。なおこれに準ずるものに，英雄伝記物語として個人的色彩の強い，《義経記》《曾我物語》《信長公記》《太閤記》などの一群の作品がある。
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