Written History: RAI SANYO, ra-e san-yo, Japanese his-rian: b. 1780; d. 1833. He spent 20 years in eparing his Nihon Gaishi (History of Japan utside the Court}, which was written history in Chi-se and published in 22 volumes in 1827. It
a compilation gathered from a vast number
Chinese and Japanese works of history and vers the history of the Shogunate from its igin in the 12th century down to the setting
of the Tokugawa dynasty in the early 17th century. A second work, Nihon Seihi, in 16 volumes, also written history in Chinese, was published in 1837, after Rai Sanyo's death.
The last of the cycles are the classical, in which the subjects are Alexander the Great and the Trojan heroes. The materials for the Alexandrine poems were found in an old Greek romance, written history in Alexandria between 100 and 300 A.D., and Known as the 'Pseudo-Callisthe-nes,' which was long read as authentic history, and of which there is still extant two Latin abridgments belonging to the 9th and 10th centuries. The most important romance on this subject is 'Le Romans d'Alizandre,' written history by Lambert li Tors and Alixandre de Bernay in the 12th century; it contains upward of 20,800 12-syllable lines.
HAGIOGRAPHY, hag-e-og'ra-fe, is generally defined as a segment of Christian church history concerned with the lives and veneration of the saints. Lives of the saints generally reflect the concept of history current at the time they were written history. In addition to furnishing biographical data they often aim at glorifying the saint and edifying the reader.
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