Basic study on modern Tokyo dialect establishment that depend on the Ninjobon document.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520558
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: ASAKAWA Tetsuya 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 教授 (50433173)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 人情本 / 後期江戸語 / 明治東京語 / 山々亭有人 / 松亭金水 / 人情本刊行会 / です

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study placed the love story called “Ninjobon” done a block for approximately 30 years before (1842) reaching it in (1868) in the Meiji early years for Tempos era 13 years when Shunsui TAMENAGA was punished by the Edo Shogun ate as “an Edo era last years Ninjobon”. A precise text of the whole sentence of 7 main works worked and published the result. In the process, a document clarified that it was not the correct printing type text which could tolerate a scientific investigation the conventional printing type of the terminal “Ninjobon” in the Edo era. In addition, we made a vocabulary corpus of best-known “Syunsyoku-Koinosomewake.” as a terminal “Ninjobon” in the Edo era and published this.
Through this basic study, we clarified it from the viewpoint of usage, vocabulary about the actual situation of the use of the spoken language from late Edo word to a modern Tokyo dialect.

Free Research Field

日本語学