読本『南総里見八犬伝』。
九輯（しゅう）、全九十八巻、百六冊。
刊行期間は二十八年にもわたる、
戯作者・曲亭馬琴の半生を費やした大作。
江戸の当時から歌舞伎や浄瑠璃としても上演され、
現代に至るまで幅広いジャンルの作品に影響を与えた。

奉公先より出奔した若き馬琴の詠んだ句、
「木がらしに　思ひたちけり　神の旅」。
神無月に出雲へ集う神々に自身をなぞらえたような
尊大な句だが『八犬伝』こそ馬琴の旅そのものだった。

The "Nansou Satomi Eight Dog Chronicles" consists of nine sokan (volumes), ninety-eight scrolls, and one-hundred and six serials. Published over twenty-eight years, this grand epic took Kyokutei Bakin nearly half his life to complete. Kabuki and joururi productions have been a fixture of Japanese theater going all the way back to the Edo period, and its influences on various works across countless genres cannot be overstated.

Bakin served as a page until he decided to set out on his own path at a young age, during which he wrote the following haiku:

"Chilled by winter winds
I have made a decision
To journey with gods"

While certainly an arrogant haiku in that it compares Bakin to the gods who gather in Izumo during Kannazuki, the tenth month of the lunar calendar, one could make a strong argument that the "Eight Dog Chronicles" is itself the journey Bakin decided to undertake.