18 tales in the second volume are biographies of high-rank monks of that imperial reign and 17 of them have been cited from "Nihon Ryoiki" (Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition, written in the early Heian period). |
中巻18話は本朝の高僧伝などで、内17話までが『日本霊異記』からの引用。 |