風ふう俗ぞく小しょう説せつ

noun

novel of manners; novel depicting contemporary customs

A genre of novel that portrays the social customs, manners, and daily life of a particular time and place.

• 彼かれの新しん作さくは江え戸ど時じ代だいの風ふう俗ぞく小しょう説せつだ。

  His new work is a novel of manners set in the Edo period.

• 風ふう俗ぞく小しょう説せつは当とう時じの生せい活かつを知しる手てがかりになる。

  Novels of manners provide clues to understanding life at the time.