1 Writing and Sources.pdf

Title - Old Japanese Early Writing in Japan and Old Japanese Sources
Author - Bjarke Frellesvig
Language - English
Pages - 18
Category - Research work


CONTENT
1. WRITING
1.1 Types of writing
1.2 Introduction of writing in Japan; early writing culture
1.2.1 Reading Chinese; ondoku, kundoku
1.2.2 Sinograph readings: on-readings and kun-readings
1.3 Writing in Japanese
1.3.1 Adaptation of Chinese script
1.3.2 Logographic writing of Japanese
1.3.3 Incipient logographic writing; 'hentai kanbun'
1.3.4 Phonographic writing of Japanese
1.3.5 Man'yôgana
1.3.6 Mixed writing; senmyô-gaki
1.4 Problems of decipherment
1.4.1 Polyvalence and equivalence
1.4.2 Reading tradition
1.4.3 Rebus writing
1.5 Examples
2. SOURCES
2.1 Japanese words in foreign sources
2.2 Early inscriptions, wooden tablets, and archival records.
2.3 8th century texts.
2.3.1 Poetry
2.3.2 Prose
2.3.3 Others
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