This book presents for the first time all texts constituting the Eastern Old Japanese corpus as well as the dictionary including all lexical items found. Unlike its relative Western Old Japanese, Eastern Old Japanese is not based on the language of just two geographic localities, but is stretched along several provinces of Ancient Japan along the Pacific Seaboard (modern Aichi to Ibaraki) and across the island of Honshū from Etchū (Modern Toyama and parts of Ishikawa) province to Shinano and Kai provinces (modern Nagano and Yamanashi). Therefore, references to places of attestation are included into our dictionary, too.
Alexander Vovin, Ph.D. (1987), St. Petersburg State University, is Directeur d’études in Japanese, Korean, and Central Asian historical linguistics at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). He has published twenty books and many articles on Japanese, Ainu, Korean, Mongolian, and other languages.
Sambi Ishisaki-Vovin, M.A. (2001), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, is a Research Assistant at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). She is actively engaged in the fieldwork of several Japonic varieties, including her native Toyama dialect.
"It is very likely that
Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary will become the conditio sine qua non for every scholar interested in the diachronic and lexical aspects of the Japanese language in general and of Eastern Old Japanese in particular." - Georg Orlandi,
Silva Iaponicarum LXVII (2022)
Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of Charts
Introduction 1 Hitachi Fudoki
2 Man’yōshū Book Fourteen
3 Structure of Book Fourteen
4 Poems in Eastern Old Japanese and in Western Old Japanese
5 Can the Poems with an Unidentified Geographical Location Be Identified?
6 Determining the Geographical Locations of Unidentified Poems on the Basis of Their Linguistic Features
7 Man’yōshū Book Sixteen
8 Man’yōshū Book Twenty
9 Poems in Eastern Old Japanese and in Western Old Japanese
10 Azuma asobi uta
11 Kokin wakashū
12 Man’yōgana Script
13 A Brief Sketch of EOJ Phonology and Morphology
14 EOJ Specific Vocabulary
15 Ainu Loans in EOJ of Book Fourteen and Twenty
16 Opotǝmǝ-nǝ Yakamǝti Criteria for Not Including Certain sakimori Poems