The Seal Glyph Database for the Non-Shuowen Etymology Studies in the Sung-Yuan Dynasties

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K12716
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 90020:Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics-related
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: suzuki shunya 広島大学, 情報メディア教育研究センター, 助教 (70311545)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山本 尭 公益財団法人泉屋博古館, 学芸課(本館), 学芸員 (90821108)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 復古編 / 小篆

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Seal glyphs collected from Fugubian, Zengxiu Fugubian, Xu Fugubian are collected and digitized as the glyph comparison table with Shuowen. Also, the Seal glyphs in Kaogutu-Shiwen are digitized, and their source object names, fangqie are added. Our Seal searching tool was originally designed for the glyph collection of Shuowen, and it was improved to support non-Shuowen glyph collection. By the investigation with these databases and tools, it was found that the “correctness” of the Seal glyphs in Fugubian are not tweaked by the earlier versions of Shuowen or any excavated Bronze objects, but modified to fit the etymological description written in the DaXu version.
It is supposed that the Shuowen studies in the Sung dynasty did not attempt to unify the archaeologic etymologies, and the glyphs in the excavated materials are used as the supplemental resource to append the variant glyphs.

Free Research Field

人文情報学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

秦石刻に見える小篆字形と説文解字に見える小篆字形が異なることは既に唐代に認識され、これを修正する改訂も行われていたと思われるが、大徐本成立によって説文学の上ではその改訂の多くは排除された。宋元代の金石学者は先秦の古漢字字形と説文に見える小篆の違いは認識していたと思われるが、復古編類の正誤規準を見る限り、説文に基づいた文字学は金文研究の知見を加える方向には進まず、むしろ大徐本が伝える六書を優先して説文に見える小篆字形までも相対化する方向の文字学が分岐したように思われる。
また字形の揺れの調査の副次的成果として、行款が全く異なる宋刊大徐本と宋刊五音韻譜の祖本が共有されている可能性が見つかった。