Seihei Sando storybook - Seihei Sando storybook

A collection of short stories in colloquial Chinese from the Ming Dynasty. Compiled by Hong Bian. Published around 1541-51. The editor was a known book collector who compiled the storybooks he had collected from the Song and Yuan dynasties into six collections of 10 stories each: "Rain Window," "Long Lantern," "Zuihang," "Qianzhuang," "Xieqian," and "Awakening Dream." He published the books with Hong's study name "Qingping Shandang" written on the fold of the paper. The compilation of 15 stories that remained in the Cabinet Library (now the National Archives of Japan) is called "Qingping Shandang Huaben." The subjects are diverse, including ghost stories, love stories, court cases, and historical tales, but the editor made almost no revisions or additions to the books when they were published, and they retain the old style of storytelling texts that were popular in urban entertainment districts, convey the simple narrative style of storytellers, and many of them reflect the public mood of the Song and Yuan dynasties well. Fourteen other stories have been discovered in China, and of these, twelve stories belonging to the "Usoshu" and "Kanzenshu" have been reprinted collectively under the name "Usoshu Kanzenshu," but the title "Seipingsandang wahon" is sometimes used to include all of them.

[Yoshio Imanishi]

"Iriya Yoshitaka's translation of "Seipingshan-do wahon" (included in "Chinese Literature Series 25: Selections of Popular Novels from the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties", 1968, Heibonsha)

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中国、明(みん)代の口語短編小説集。洪楩(こうべん)編。1541～51年ごろ成立。編者は蔵書家で知られた人で、その収集した宋元(そうげん)代の話本を「雨窓」「長燈(ちょうとう)」「随航」「欹枕(きちん)」「解閑」「醒夢(せいむ)」の6集、各10編にまとめ、版心（紙の折り目の部分）に「清平山堂」という洪氏の書斎名を入れて出版した。そのうち日本の内閣文庫（現国立公文書館所蔵）に残存していた15編をまとめて翻刻した書を『清平山堂話本』とよぶ。題材は怪談、恋愛、裁判、歴史物語など多岐にわたるが、編者は出版にあたってほとんど校訂・増改の手を加えておらず、都市の盛り場で流行した講談のテキストの古い形をよくとどめ、素朴な講釈師の語り口をそのまま伝えていて、宋元時代の民情をよく反映したものが多い。なお、中国でほかに14編が発見されており、そのうち「雨窓集」「欹枕集」に属する12編がまとめて『雨窓欹枕集』の名で翻刻されているが、『清平山堂話本』の称は、それらすべてを含む名称として用いられることもある。

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『入矢義高訳『清平山堂話本』（『中国文学大系25　宋元明通俗小説選』所収・1968・平凡社）』

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