sword and cloak

Japanese: sword and cloak(英語表記)swordandcloak
sword and cloak

...This is also what Hiroshi Nakatani means when he likens the sword of historical novels to Raskolnikov's axe in Crime and Punishment. Some writers use the techniques of Western rogue novels, historical romances (sword and cloak), or Chinese fantasy novels, and their origins are diverse, but the tradition of popular literature and storytelling became the shorthand storytelling (human interest stories) and newspaper novels of the Meiji period, and combined with the trends of political storytelling, civil rights storytelling, and social storytelling to form folk literature. Therefore, the works of Kikuchi Kan, Kume Masao, Nakamura Murao, Kato Takeo, Yoshiya Nobuko, and other writers of family novels in the style of Kikuchi Yuho and Watanabe Kasutei, were called popular novels and placed in a different category. ...

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Japanese:

…中谷博が時代小説の剣を《罪と罰》のラスコリニコフの斧にたとえたのもそのことを指している。作家の中には西欧の悪漢小説や歴史ロマンス(sword and cloak),あるいは中国の伝奇小説などの骨法を活用する者もあり,その淵源は多様だが,庶民的な文芸や話芸の伝統が,明治期の速記講談(人情噺(ばなし))や新聞小説となり,政治講談,民権講談,社会講談などの流れとも相まって,民衆文芸を形成したものと考えられる。したがって菊池幽芳,渡辺霞亭らの流れをひく家庭小説の書き手である菊池寛,久米正雄,中村武羅夫(むらお),加藤武雄,吉屋信子らの作品は通俗小説と呼ばれて別の範疇に入れられた。…

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