Yue-weicao-tang bi-ji (English)

Japanese: 閲微草堂筆記 - えつびそうどうひっき（英語表記）Yue-weicao-tang bi-ji

A collection of strange tales from the Qing Dynasty, China. Written by Kiin. 24 volumes. Published in 1800 (5th year of the Jiaqing era). It consists of five parts: Luanyang Jiaoxialu, Rui Zhi Wan, Huaixi Zasshi, Gong Mun Hearing Zhi, and Luanyang Xulu. These were written between 1789 (54th year of the Qianlong era) and 1798 (3rd year of the Jiaqing era), and were co-published by his disciple Seijigen. Yue Wei Cao Tang was the name of Kiin's study. The majority of the stories are about ghosts and foxes and raccoons, but they also include foreign products, legends, and the author's recollections. One of the motivations for writing this work was his dissatisfaction with the then-popular "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" (Liao Zhai Zhiyi), which mixed the Six Dynasties' ghost stories and the Tang Dynasty's legendary stories in style, and its content with stories of what he had seen and imagined. This work follows the former style, written in an elegant and concise style, and strictly maintaining the attitude of recording what he had seen and heard about ordinary people's events. The comments on each incident at the end of each work also show Kine's deep scholarship and insight. This work was widely read alongside "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio," and was once considered the model for ghost stories.

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Japanese:

中国，清の奇談集。紀いんの著。 24巻。嘉慶5 (1800) 年刊。『灤陽 (らんよう) 消夏録』『如是我聞』『槐西雑志』『姑妄聴之 (こもうちょうし) 』『灤陽続録』の5種から成り，乾隆 54 (1789) 年から嘉慶3 (98) 年にかけて書かれたものを，門人の盛時彦 (せいじげん) が合刊したもの。閲微草堂は紀いんの書斎の名。幽霊や狐狸の怪談が主であるが，異国の物産や伝説，作者の追憶談なども含まれる。当時流行していた『聊斎志異 (りょうさいしい) 』が文体では六朝の志怪小説と唐の伝奇小説を，内容では見聞と空想とをそれぞれ混用しているという不満が執筆の一つの動機であり，本書はいずれも前者に従って，典雅簡潔な文体で，市井の事件の見聞を記録するという態度をきびしく保って書かれている。文末につけられた各事件に対する評語にも，紀いんの深い学識と見識が示され，『聊斎志異』と並んで広く読まれ，かつては本書のほうが怪異小説の模範と考えられたこともあった。

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