太平記

Taiheiki

国文学研究資料館

室町時代に成立した軍記物語。後醍醐天皇の鎌倉幕府討幕計画に始まり、室町幕府三代将軍義満の時代に到る、南北朝の動乱を描く。物語というよりも、むしろ歴史書として、また戦国時代には軍学・兵法の書としても読まれた。多くは漢字片仮名交じりの和漢混淆文で記されるが、掲出本は平仮名交じりで記される珍しいもの。古活字版で、振り仮名付き漢字の活字が用いられている点も珍しい。

National Institute of Japanese Literature

A military story written in the Muromachi period. Beginning with Emperor Godaigo's plan to overthrow the Kamakura Shogunate, it depicts the turbulent Nanbokuchō period up until the third Muromachi Shogunate, Yoshimitsu's reign. This text was treated as a historical book rather than a story, and during the Warring States period, it was read as a military science and law book. Many versions are written in mixed writing of literary Japanese Chinese with kanji and katakana, but this particular version is an unusual one that mixes in Hiragana. It is also rare that the old-moveable type version employs kanji with furigana. [Translated by NCC] [5//24]