A Study on Ancient Japanese Vocabulary Used in Kunten Materials

• Published in: Nihon Gakushiin kiyō Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12
• Main Author: TSUKISHIMA, Hiroshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Japan Academy 2001

In the early years in the 9th century, Japanese scholars began to note Japanese vocabulary on the Chinese sentences in the Buddhist sutra and in other texts written in Chinese, in order to read and understand them. The tradition of noting Japanese in this way had been carried on ever since, and cons...