A history of writing in Japan / / Christopher Seeley.

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese studies library ; 3
• VerfasserIn: Seeley, Christopher ,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 1991.
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: German
• Series: Brill's Japanese studies library ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 243 pages).

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Transcriptions, Symbols, Etc. -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- I. The God Age Script, Accounts in The Earliest Histories, and Chinese Inscriptions -- The God Age Script -- Accounts in The Earliest Histories -- Chinese Inscriptions -- II. Writing in Early Japan - Inscriptions in Metal and Stone -- The Suda Hachiman Shrine Mirror -- The Inariyama Burial Mound Sword Inscription -- The Eta Funayama Burial Mound Sword Inscription -- The Chinese, Hybrid, and Japanese Written Styles -- III. Writing in Eighth Century Japan -- Earlier Compilations -- The Kojiki -- The Nihon shoki -- The Man' yōshū -- Senmyō (Imperial Edicts) -- Other Documents -- IV. Development of The Kana Syllabaries -- Precedents for Abbreviated Script Forms -- Kuntenbon (Chinese Texts Marked for Reading as Japanese) and The Development of Abbreviated Phonograms -- Selectional Principles Underlying The Development of Isolating Phonograms -- Phonogram Glosses: Disunity and Later Semi-Standardisation -- Wider Use of Isolating Phonograms -- Beginnings of The Hiragana Script -- The Contrasting Functions of Phonograms of The Katakana and Hiragana Types -- Heian Period Terms for Script Forms -- Incipient Use of Diacritics Corresponding to Modern Dakuten -- V. Evolution of Texts Written in Mixed Character-Kana Orthography (kanjikanamajiribun) -- Senmyō and Mixed Character-Kana Orthography -- Kuntenbon and Mixed Character-Kana Orthography -- Japanese Style Texts and Mixed Character-Kana Orthography -- Later Developments -- VI. Pre-Modern Kana Usage -- Factors Underlying The Development of a System of Normative Kana Spellings (rekishiteki kanazukai) -- The Contribution of Fujiwara Teika to Kana Usage -- Criticism of The Teika-Style Kana Usage.

The Historical Kana Usage of Keichū -- VII. Aspects of Writing from The Kamakura Period to The Edo Period -- The Kamakura and Muromachi Periods -- The Edo Period -- VIII. Development of The Modern Japanese Script - The Period ca.1868-1945 -- The Flood of New Lexical Items, and Their Written Representation -- Early Proposals for Overall Reform of The Writing System -- The Period 1900-1945 -- IX. Development of The Modern Japanese Script - The Period 1945 Onwards -- Reforms of The Early Postwar Period -- The Post-Tōyō Kanji Era -- Beginnings of The New Character List -- The Jōyō Kanjihyō "List of Characters for General Use" -- Further Aspects of The Modern Japanese Script -- Select Glossary -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Periods of Chinese and Japanese History -- Appendix 2: The Inariyama Sword Text: Chronologically Localised Variant Form Characters - a Tentative Listing -- Appendix 3: Derivation of The Modern Katakana. -- Appendix 4: The Katakana Syllabary: A Historical Perspective -- Appendix 5: Derivation of The Modern Hiragana -- Appendix 6: Okototen -- Appendix 7: Kokuji -- Appendix 8: Statistical Survey of Kana Spellings for Entries in The Mite Bunkobon Waji shōranshō -- Appendix 9: Modern Systems of Romanisation for Japanese -- Appendix 10: Chronological Table of Committees on The Japanese Language, Reports, Regulations, Etc. (1900-) -- Bibliography -- Character Concordance -- Index.