Category record - Buriki

Japanese: 部類記 - ぶるいき

These are diaries in which entries on specific matters are excerpted from diary records and compiled into categories. From the mid-Heian period onwards, as the etiquette and customs of court ceremonies and public affairs became more precise, the descriptions in the diaries of court nobles also became more detailed, while at the same time the trend of respecting precedents grew stronger, and buruiki were created to facilitate the review of precedents. This was modelled on the compilation of rule books which had been popular in China from an early period and which had been actively produced in Japan since the early Heian period, and numerous buruiki were produced by the end of the Edo period. They can be broadly categorized into four types: (1) those in which a single item is excerpted from a single diary, (2) those in which excerpts covering multiple items from a single diary are compiled, (3) those in which a single item is compiled from multiple diaries, and (4) those in which multiple items from multiple diaries are compiled into categories.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

日記記録から特定の事項について記事を抄出し，類別編集したもの。平安中期以降，朝儀公事の作法故実が細密化するに伴い，公家日記の記述も詳細になる一方，先例尊重の風潮が強まり，先例引勘の便に供するため部類記が作られるようになった。これは早く中国で盛行し，日本でも平安初期以来盛んに作成された類書の編集にならったもので，江戸時代末まで数多くの部類記が生まれた。それらを大別すると，(1)単一の日記から単一の項目について抄出したもの，(2)単一の日記から複数の項目にわたり抄出類集したもの，(3)複数の日記から単一の項目について編集したもの，(4)複数の日記から複数の項目にわたって類別編集したものの4種に分けられる。

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