《世说新语补》在日本江户时期的传播与接受考论

On the Dissemination and Reception of the Supplement to Shih-shuo Hsin-yu in Japan during the Edo Period

晚明时期出现的“世说体”小说《世说新语补》在日本江户时期广为传播,江户士人对其展开大量的注解、抄补、音译等研究工作,并掀起了日本“世说体”小说的创作热潮,其影响力甚至超过了刘义庆的《世说新语》。通过对《世说新语补》渡日版本内容的比勘,发现其书基本承袭了刘义庆《世说新语》的一贯风格,但在内容上又根据作者的价值旨趣进行了删减或增补,增加了大量符合儒家思想观念之内容。《世说新语补》在江户时期的风行,以及其后在日本产生的“世说热”的现象,折射出江户时期士人的精神风貌。

The Supplement to Shih-shuo Hsin-yu created in China during the late Ming Dynasty was widely popular in Japan during the Edo period.Edo scholars carried out a lot of research on the book including annotation,note supplementation or transliteration,sparkling a craze in the creation of Japanese Shih-huo Hsin-yu genre novels.A careful examination of the copy found in Japan reveals that the book basically inherited the style of Liu Yiqing's Shih-shuo Hsin-yu,but its content was redacted according to the author's value and interest,adding a lot of Confucian ideas.The popularity of the book and the Shih-shuo hsin-yu genre during the Edo period reflected the scholarly outlook of the time.