Three Kingdoms Biography - Sankoku Denki

A collection of tales. Edited by the novice monk Shami Gento. Published in the mid-Muromachi period (early 15th century). It is a collection of 360 tales, with 12 volumes in total, each with 30 tales, and tales from India, China, and Japan arranged in order. It is written in a skillful style, mainly using Chinese readings, and is peppered with famous Japanese and Chinese poems and beautiful phrases, and many of the tales are based on earlier collections of tales. Overall, the tales are strongly influenced by Buddhist faith. There are also many stories about the origins of temples and shrines, especially those from the temples and shrines around Kanzaki County, Omi Province (Higashi Omi City, Shiga Prefecture). This gives some insight into the background of the book's creation and its editor, Shami Gento. The structure of the preface was influenced by volume 35 of the Taiheiki, "The Tale of the Night of the Night of Kitano." It is noted as the tentative end of a series of tales that had been produced continuously from ancient times to the Middle Ages. A copy written in hiragana from the early Edo period has also been handed down.

[Tokuda Kazuo]

"The Three Kingdoms Biography, volumes 1 and 2, annotated by Junichi Ikegami (1976, 1982, Miyai Shoten) " " The Three Kingdoms Biography, volumes 1, 2 and 3, edited by Naotaro Ando and compiled by the Nagoya Three Kingdoms Biography Study Group (1982-83, Classic Library)"

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説話集。沙弥玄棟(しゃみげんとう)編。室町時代中期（15世紀前期）成立。インド、中国、日本の説話が順繰りに配され、全12巻、各巻30話、合計360話の集成である。漢文の訓読調を主体に、和漢の名詩句や美辞麗句をちりばめた技巧的な文章で展開しており、その説話典拠は多くが先行の説話集に求められる。全体的に仏教信仰の色濃い説話が目だつ。また寺社縁起譚(たん)も顕著だが、とくに近江(おうみ)国神崎(かんざき)郡（滋賀東近江(おうみ)市）周辺の寺社のそれが多い。これは本書の成立背景や編者玄棟について示唆するところとなっている。序文の構成には『太平記』巻35「北野通夜(つや)物語」が影響している。古代から中世まで連綿と制作されてきた説話集のいちおうの終結点として注目されている。なお江戸初期写の平仮名本も伝わる。

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『池上洵一校注『三国伝記』上下（1976、82・三弥井書店）』▽『安藤直太郎監修、名古屋三国伝記研究会編『三国伝記〈平仮名本〉』上中下（1982～83・古典文庫）』

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