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Historical Studies of Hiragana upon Integration of the Hiragana Grapheme Database and the 19th-Century Textbook Corpus of Hiragana Grapheme

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K13462
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Japanese linguistics
Research InstitutionHokkai-Gakuen University (2020)
National Institute of Japanese Literature (2017-2019)

Principal Investigator

OKADA Kazuhiro  北海学園大学, 人文学部, 講師 (80761220)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords変体仮名 / 明治期読本 / 平仮名字体意識 / 活字 / 文字教育 / 文字史 / 日本語学 / 平仮名 / 国語学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

To elaborate the understanding of the history of hiragana in the 19th century, this study aimed at expand, both in quality and quantity, the hiragana grapheme database and the grapheme corpus of the 19th century readers that the principal investigator had developed. The major results of this study are to reexamine the well-known materials and grapheme theories.
Of those results, we made clear the importance of The Kana Club (Kana-no-kwai), who advocated the kana-only writing in the early Meiji period, in the resulting 1900 kana standardisation. This result has also importance in avoiding aimless expansion of our databases.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

1900年に小学校で教育される平仮名が統一されてのち、平仮名の字体は安定して用いられているが、それ以前は安定性に欠いていたというのが大方の理解であり、安定にむかって自然な漸進していったのが明治初期の歴史であったかのように言われる。本研究では、それが非なることを、研究代表者によってすでに明らかにされていた小学校初等教科書における仮名字体教育順序の編成にくわえて、「かなのくわい」資料の検討によってさらに明らかにし、言語政策として統一されたことを明確にした点に意義がある。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 2 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 明治前期鋳造活字の平仮名書体における濁音表示と仮名字体意識2020

    • Author(s)
      岡田一祐
    • Journal Title

      年報新人文学

      Volume: 17 Pages: 10-49

    • NAID

      120007018955

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] (影印)いしこみつてる(石河光煕)『いつらのこゑのかむがへ』:ある音義派の仮名専用運動2019

    • Author(s)
      岡田一祐
    • Journal Title

      国文学研究資料館紀要 文学研究篇

      Volume: 45 Pages: 239-256

    • NAID

      120006643511

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Remarks on Kaempferʼs Imatto Canna2019

    • Author(s)
      Kazuhiro Okada
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the graduate school of letters

      Volume: 14 Pages: 15-35

    • DOI

      10.14943/jgsl.14.15

    • NAID

      120006603700

    • ISSN
      1880-8832
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] Diverse standards in the Pre-modern Japanese orthography2019

    • Author(s)
      Kazuhiro Okada
    • Organizer
      The Twelfth International Workshop of the Association of Written Language and Literacy
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Japanese philology: The Database of Premodern Japanese Works and the “Wakan meien” Hiragana Grapheme Database2018

    • Author(s)
      Kazuhiro Okada
    • Organizer
      International Symposium “Digital Humanities and Databases”
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Hentaigana charts in Meiji Textbooks Revisited: An analysis of hentaigana charts2017

    • Author(s)
      Kazuhiro Okada
    • Organizer
      EAJS2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] いろは仮名といまの平仮名: 近代における仮名の体系化2017

    • Author(s)
      岡田一祐
    • Organizer
      変体仮名のこれまでとこれから
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] 近代平仮名体系の成立2021

    • Author(s)
      岡田 一祐
    • Total Pages
      368
    • Publisher
      文学通信
    • ISBN
      9784909658487
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 日本語文字論の挑戦2021

    • Author(s)
      加藤重広、岡墻裕剛編(分担執筆・岡田一祐他)
    • Total Pages
      432
    • Publisher
      勉誠出版
    • ISBN
      9784585380009
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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