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Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Palaeography
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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