Historical Linguistics Study of Hiragana in Japanese Writing System

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652091
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: Shinshu University
• Principal Investigator: YAMADA Kenzo 信州大学, 学術研究院人文科学系, 教授 (00221656)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 日本語書記システム / 平仮名 / 男手・女手 / 草仮名 / 万葉仮名 / 上代仮名 / 連綿 / 句読法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project cleared meanings of some words; OTOKODE, ONNADE, SOGANA, MANYOGANA and HIRAGANA, in Japanese writing system. MANYOGANA is not good for a technical term. So I suggested a new term JODAIGANA.Especially I cleared, althogh HIRAGANA was not seen in HEIAN documents, HIRAGANA was used in HEIAN period, by inner reconstruction.And I mentioned that RENMEN (Japanese ligature) in KANA writing system is one of the punctuaion system in old Japanese writing system.

Free Research Field

日本語史研究