A Japanese literary genre, "Story" means story, which developed from oral rap to literary works. In the history of Japanese literature, the story mainly refers to the legendary novels, Wako novels, love novels, historical novels and war stories from heian period (794-1192) to Muromachi era (1336-1573). The most famous stories are Genji Tale, Ise Tale, Takeshi Tale, Pingjia Tale, Luowa Tale and so on.

The word "story" in Japanese means story or gossip. Story literature is a genre of Japanese classical writing, which originated in heian period. At the beginning of the tenth century, it was formed on the basis of Japanese folk, and was influenced by the legendary literature of the Six Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties in China. Before Genji's story, story literature was divided into two schools. One was to create story stories, such as bamboo stories, and the other was legendary. Most of them are objective narratives or historical narratives, which are based on fairy tales and folk tales. They are a literary form in the transition to independent stories, but their shortcomings are the lack of internal unity and artistic integrity.