《八犬传》以日本历史上动荡的战国时代为经纬,然后又从《书言事考》中借了里见八犬之名,设置了八个忠勇义烈的典型人物。经过作者的精心设计和严密构思编写而成,其结构是借助了史实,而其具体内容则又是近似于虚构。《八犬传》不是生搬硬套地把整个历史原版不动地端过来,而是把它穿插在现实之间,既不显山也不露水,使历史与现实浑然成一体。 “Eight Dogs Biography” to Japan’s turbulent history of the Warring States Period as the latitude and longitude, and then from the “Book of Changes” borrowed in the name of eight dogs, set up eight typical loyalty and heroism. After the author’s careful design and written in strict conception, the structure is based on historical facts, and its specific content is approximate to fiction. The “Eight Dogs Biography” does not meanlessly curtailing the whole history intact, but interspersing it between realities, neither showing nor dew, making history and reality totally integrated.