日・中・韓姓氏大辞典

日・中・韓姓氏大辞典
Author: Wolfgang Hadamitzky
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Volume 2: From Readings to Characters is an alphabetical guide to the kanji spelling of surnames given in roman letters.

Japan's Name Culture

Japan's Name Culture
Author: Herbert E. Plutschow
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781873410424

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Japanese names - their history and evolution, and ontological implications. Its main purpose is to understand the development of the nomenclature in its religious (animistic) and socio-political contexts. We learn, for example, how belief in the animistic-symbolic property of names developed into extensive taboos and, in connection with these taboos, into the custom of revealing names in case of marriage or territorial surrender. Whereas private (religious) use of surnames was tolerated, commoners without public functions were prohibited from public use of surnames. In the Meiji period (1868-1912), on the other hand, the government enforced the universal registry of surnames to conform with its policy of universal conscription, education, taxation and the postal service. The book will be of particular interest to students of Japan and Japanese nomenclature. It will also appeal to the general reader drawn to learning more about Japan by looking at its history, religion and culture through the names of its people.

Asia's Orthographic Dilemma

Asia's Orthographic Dilemma
Author: William C. Hannas
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997-06-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780824818920

With the advent of computers and the rise of East Asian economies, the complicated character-based writing systems of East Asia have reached a stage of crisis that may be described as truly millennial in scope and implications. In what is perhaps the most wide-ranging critique of the sinographic script ever written, William C. Hannas assesses the usefulness of Chinese character-based writing in East Asia today.

Literary Sinitic and East Asia

Literary Sinitic and East Asia
Author: Bunkyo Kin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004437304

In Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the ‘vernacular reading’ technologies used to read Literary Sinitic through a wide variety of vernacular languages across diverse premodern literary cultures in East Asia.