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¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Heretofore, paleography has been a field scarcely undertaken among historians of Ancient Japanese history. Only after World War II have historians started to explore official documents such as the koseki (koseki) or the keicho (keicho) ; documents in the shosoinmonjo (shosoinmonjo). This academical work is limited to the study of official documents written according to the kushikiryo (kushikiryo), exchanged between government authorities. There is still a large amount of unofficial documents or shojo (shojo) that need to be analized.
This study seeks to trace the origins of shojo in Japan. First it focuses in the different forms of shojo, expecially in the way of fu (fu) and categorizes the shojo in shosoinmonjo according to their writing style and content in order to find a connection between the forms of shojo, their contents and their writing styles.
In examining the heading patterns, ending patterns, dating patterns, agedokoro (agedokoro) or atedokoro (atedokoro) and wakidsuke (wakidsuke), one can notice that most of the shojo follow the Chinese patterns. However, some of the styles of wakidsuke and the terms to address the atedokoro are peculiar to Japan. An analysis of the shojo tells us that although most of the shojo are written in their original kei (kei) or jo (jo) style, someuse official forms under the kushikiryo, such as ge (ge) and cho (cho). Notice that ge and cho were not used as stated in the kushikiryo, but they carried features characteristic of the shojo, such as agedokoro, atedokoro and wakidsuke.
By classifying the shojo in terms of their contents, we find that manyof them were related to the zotodaijishishakyojo (zotodaijishishakyojo). In the eighth century, there were shojo in "Man-yoshu" (Man-yoshu) that were merely personal. Yet, some shojo in shosoinmonjo were official. Not all the official documents were written according to the kushikiryo : some ge and cho used fu which was originally used in shojo.
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