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.