《太平记》是日本中世时代(约13—16世纪)军事小说之集大成者。与《平家物语》并称日本军事小说之“双璧”,但其内容却极大地丰富于《平家物语》。因而问世数百年来,一直深受日本各阶层读者的青睐,几乎可说是日本的《三国演义》:有人拿它作史书看,江户时代(17—19世纪)的“水户黄门”德川光国为编写《大日本史》,就曾命儒臣收集 Taiping Keiji is a masterpiece of military novels in the Japanese medieval world (about the 13th and 16th centuries). And “Pinghu Monogatari” and said that the Japanese military novels “double bi”, but its content is greatly enriched in “Pinggu story”. Therefore, it has been favored by readers of all walks of life in Japan for hundreds of years and can be said to be almost Japan’s “Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” Some people used it as a history book to read that “the Mito Yellow Door of the Edo Period (17th-19th Century) Tokugawa Mitsuo for the preparation of ”Great Japanese History", had Confucianism collection