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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.
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.
Price: $185.00
Pages: 243
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library
Publication Date:
01 December 1990
ISBN: 9789004090811
Format: Other
'Christopher Seeley hat sich die anspruchsvolle Aufgabe gestellt, eine umfassende historische Darstellung von Schrift und schriftlicher Sprache von den Anfängen bis zür Gegenwart zu bieten...er hat sich dieser Aufgabe mit Akribie und Fleiß entledigt und ein solides, kenntnisreiches Buch geschrieben.'
Florian Coulmas, Rundschreiben der O.A.G., 1995.
Florian Coulmas, Rundschreiben der O.A.G., 1995.
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 Kyōiku, Encyclopedia of Japan, and Visible Language.