A History of Writing in Japan

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BRILL, 1991 - 243
This book deals chronologically with the history of writing in Japan, a subject which spans a period of 2,000 years, beginning with the transmission of writing from China in about the first or second century AD, and concluding with the use of written Japanese with computers. Topics dealt with include the adoption of Chinese writing and its subsequent adaptation in Japan, forms of writing employed in works such as the "Kojiki" and "Man'yoshu," development of the "kana" syllabaries, evolution of mixed character-"kana" orthography, historical "kana" usage, the rise of literacy during the Edo period, and the main changes that have taken place in written Japanese in the modern period (ca. 1868 onwards). This is the first full-length work in a European language to provide the Western reader with an overall account of the subject concerned, based on extensive examination of both primary and secondary materials.
 

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The God Age Script Accounts in The Earliest Histories
3
Writing in Early Japan Inscriptions in Metal and Stone
16
Writing in Eighth Century Japan
40
Other Documents
60
Disunity and Later SemiStandardisa
68
Evolution of Texts Written in Mixed CharacterKana
90
Japanese Style Texts and Mixed CharacterKana Orthog
96
PreModern Kana Usage
104
Development of The Modern Japanese Script
150
The PostToyo Kanji
159
The Joyo Kanjihyo List of Characters for General Use
166
Further Aspects of The Modern Japanese Script
179
Select Glossary
188
Localised Variant Form Characters a Tentative Listing
193
Bibliography
210
Index
230

Aspects of Writing from The Kamakura Period to
126
Development of The Modern Japanese Script
136

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C. Seeley is Head of the Department of Asian Languages at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Publications: many articles in such publications as "Gobun," "Nihongo Ky iku," "Encyclopedia of Japan," and "Visible Language."

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