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Uta Mokkan: A History of Early Japanese Poetry through Inscription.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Uta Mokkan: A History of Early Japanese Poetry through Inscription./
Author:	Frydman, Joshua.
Description:	240 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-09A(E).
Subject:	Literature, Asian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3580690
ISBN:	9781321051155

Uta Mokkan: A History of Early Japanese Poetry through Inscription.
Frydman, Joshua.

Uta Mokkan: A History of Early Japanese Poetry through Inscription. - 240 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The discovery of mokkan([special characters omitted]), wooden tablets inscribed with ink, has completely changed the way scholars understand ancient Japan. Rather than an occasional substitute for paper, mokkanappear to have been the dominant medium for writing during the Asuka (538-710) and Nara (710-784) Periods of Japanese history. As of 2008, approximately 400,000 tablets have been uncovered from numerous archaeological sites around the archipelago, and more are found every year. Approximately forty objects from this corpus contain fragments of poems in Japanese. Known as uta mokkan ([special characters omitted]"poem tablets"), many of these artifacts predate the oldest extant anthology of Japanese poetry, the Man 'yoshu ([special characters omitted] after 759), and contain invaluable information for the uses of poetry prior to it being recorded widely on paper. The formal qualities of the objects fit one of two paradigms, either as oversized reading cards used as performance aids, or as scrap material for writing practice. Furthermore, comparing data from the sites at which uta mokkan were discovered reveals that many of the artifacts were used by the mid-level bureaucracy, a group whose literacy levels have been hotly debated in Japanese scholarship. Through examining these objects, I propose a view of poetry as circulating via both ritualistic and scholarly activities at multiple levels of society in Asuka and Nara Japan.

ISBN: 9781321051155Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Asian.

Uta Mokkan: A History of Early Japanese Poetry through Inscription.
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520 $a The discovery of mokkan([special characters omitted]), wooden tablets inscribed with ink, has completely changed the way scholars understand ancient Japan. Rather than an occasional substitute for paper, mokkanappear to have been the dominant medium for writing during the Asuka (538-710) and Nara (710-784) Periods of Japanese history. As of 2008, approximately 400,000 tablets have been uncovered from numerous archaeological sites around the archipelago, and more are found every year. Approximately forty objects from this corpus contain fragments of poems in Japanese. Known as uta mokkan ([special characters omitted]"poem tablets"), many of these artifacts predate the oldest extant anthology of Japanese poetry, the Man 'yoshu ([special characters omitted] after 759), and contain invaluable information for the uses of poetry prior to it being recorded widely on paper. The formal qualities of the objects fit one of two paradigms, either as oversized reading cards used as performance aids, or as scrap material for writing practice. Furthermore, comparing data from the sites at which uta mokkan were discovered reveals that many of the artifacts were used by the mid-level bureaucracy, a group whose literacy levels have been hotly debated in Japanese scholarship. Through examining these objects, I propose a view of poetry as circulating via both ritualistic and scholarly activities at multiple levels of society in Asuka and Nara Japan.
520 $a The dissertation consists of an introduction and five chapters. The introduction gives a basic explanation for what mokkan are and how they are studied. The first chapter explores the concept of uta mokkan in more depth, and uses the case of a single object found at the ruins of a Buddhist temple to consider the relationship between the writing and performance of poems at Buddhist ritual sites. The second chapter examines a series of objects that all bear the same poem, known as the Naniwazu Poem; these include roof tile and pottery fragments, and inscriptions on the roof beams of pagoda ceilings, in addition to mokkan. This chapter traces how the poem displays a shift from a ritualized use to a learning function during the seventh through tenth centuries, and how that shift may demonstrate contemporaneous uses of poetry that cannot be understood from the extant manuscript texts alone. The third chapter is a survey of various mokkan, each of which features a different poem. Through looking at these objects I discern patterns of spreading literacy in the mid-level bureaucracy as well as the upper levels of the court during the Asuka and Nara Periods. The fourth chapter once again focuses on a single object, known as the Asakayama Mokkan, which bears two poems later used to teach writing and composition. In this chapter I explore how these functions may have aided transmission of poems, and how such transmission may have been linked to the compilation o f the Man 'yoshu. The fifth and final chapter situates the writing of poetry on sources other than paper amidst larger trends in the use of both writing and language across East Asia. This chapter further elaborates on the use of writing on disposable surfaces as parallel to the development of a fully literate culture, and on connections between Japanese examples and contemporaneous objects from Korea and China. Through the research presented in this dissertation, I hope to offer a new vision of who was composing poetry in Japanese, how and for what reasons, at an earlier stage than can be understood from studying the extant manuscript texts.
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