2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study on Normative Characters and Page Compositon Rules in the Japanese Early Christian Mission Press
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13610485
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
国語学
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| Research Institution | TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES |
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Principal Investigator |
TOYOSHIMA Masayuki Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Associate Professor, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 助教授 (10180192)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2002
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| Keywords | Christian documents / Christian Mission Press / glyph variants / ligatures / Guia de Pecadores / page composition rules / 古活字版 / 版式 |
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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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Research Products
(4 results)
