Abstract: The dairy Meigetsuki, written by Fujiwarano Teika, is regarded as the precious historical records from the Heian Period to the Kamakura Period, presenting a unique personalized and detailed historical narrative style. This diary involves a lot of Chinese classics, and there are many examples of citing The Historical Records. Due to the fact that the study of Meigetsuki originated from historiography, the academic community attaches great importance to its historical value in recording events. Regarding the citation of The Historical Records in Meigetsuki, it only points out that the author of Meigetsuki quotes the allusions in The Historical Records when evaluating historical events, lacking a multidimensional perspective on the citation of The Historical Records in the field of private writing. Focusing on the relationship between the Chinese writing of Meigetsuki and the acceptance of Chinese classics, this article provides evidence to illustrate the multidimensional citation of allusions in The Historical Records in recording weather, depicting characters, and narrating events in Meigetsuki. It can provide insight into the acceptance of Chinese classics by the Japanese middle class aristocratic class in the field of private writing, and also examine the historical situation at that time from the first perspective.

Key words: Meigetsuki, The Historical Records, citation, the field of private writing