紀き伝でん体たい

noun

annals-biographies form; biographical-thematic historiography

A traditional East Asian historical writing style that combines chronological annals with detailed biographies of notable figures. Used especially in reference to Chinese dynastic histories and early Japanese official histories.

• 『史し記き』は紀き伝でん体たいの代だい表ひょう的てきな歴れき史し書しょです。

  The 'Records of the Grand Historian' is a representative work of the annals-biographies form.

• 日本にほん書しょ紀きは編へん年ねん体たいだが、後のちの歴れき史し書しょは紀き伝でん体たいで書かかれた。

  The Nihon Shoki is in chronological form, but later histories were written in the annals-biographies form.