| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Research Abstract |
All the characters in the late Christian Mission Press in Japan, printed by the Jesuites during the late 16^<th> to 17^<th> centuries, have been incorporated into glyph-based databases, by means of which, the normative character-usage,, as well as normative page-composition rules have been investigated.
(1) The characters (especially the Han-character [Kanji]) are employed on the "Fixed-Reading" basis, I.e. there exist solid relationship between the Han-characters and their Japanese counterpart readings.
(2) The glyph variants are intended to produce "pseudo-manuscript" image, with a lot of ligatures. The ligatures make it easier to read the Japanese orthography, which lacks word-deviders. The variants with considerable size(height) differences contribute to the space management.
All these features may have been the same for the early Japanese type-cast print, and the database developped by this survey is expected to serve as a basis for further study of the history of the Japanese printing.
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