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 ...
