Lexical Item Charts for the "Corpus of Historical Japanese"
Word counts of individual lexemes (and word counts of lexical type and of part of speech) for the data collected in the "Corpus of Historical Japanese" have been arranged by historical period and by literary work.
They can be downloaded through the following links.
Lexical Item Charts for the "Corpus of Historical Japanese"(Version 2024.03)
Word Count Chart
The word counts for the data collected in the "Corpus of Historical Japanese" are presented in the following files. Word frewuency (both including punctuation marks and not including punctuation marks) have been arranged according to Sample ID, Core/non-core, Main text type (including quotations), and Style.
Data on the Word Count Chart for Short Unit Words can be downloaded through the following links.
Download Word Count Chart for Short Unit Words (Version 2024.03)
Download Word Count Chart for Long Unit Words (Version 2024.03)
Lexical Statistics: Version 2024.03
This page presents Word Count Charts and Lexical Item Charts for the "Corpus of Historical Japanese" Version 2024.03.
- Word Count Charts assemble word counts (in two types: word counts including punctuation marks, and word counts not including punctuation marks) according to Sample ID, Core/non-core data, Main text type, and Style.
- The Lexical Item Charts assemble data on word counts for lemmas according to Historical period and literary work. For each work in each historical period, there is information on how many times each lemma is attested, and there is a filter such as those in Excel and other applications, allowing data to be sorted and refined by reference to such factors as part of speech and lexical type.
In the "Corpus of Historical Japanese" Version 2024.03 there are presented 20,910,000 Short Unit Words, and 2,880,000 Long Unit Words. The following sets out the breakdown for the individual sub-corpora.
- Word Count of each sub-corpus
| Period | Sub-corpus | Short Unit Word | Long Unit Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nara period | Nara Period Series I: Man'yōshū | 99,000 | 94,000 |
| Nara Period Series II: Senmyō | 21,000 | 17,000 | |
| Nara Period Series III: Norito | 11,000 | 9,000 | |
| Heian period | Heian Period Series I: Kana literature | 1,030,000 | 912,000 |
| Heian Period Series II: Kunten materials | 10,000 | - | |
| Heian period / Kamakura period | Waka-shū Series | 269,000 | 252,000 |
| Kamakura period | Kamakura Period Series I: Folktales and Essays | 844,000 | 792,000 |
| Kamakura Period Series II: Diaries and Travel Literature | 128,000 | 118,000 | |
| Kamakura Period Series III: Military Chronicles | 331,000 | 291,000 | |
| Muromachi Period | Muromachi Period Series I: Kyōgen | 277,000 | 256,000 |
| Muromachi Period Series II: Christian Materials | 149,000 | 139,000 | |
| Edo Period | Edo Period Series I: Share-bon | 218,000 | ― |
| Edo Period Series II: Ninjo-bon | 406,000 | ― | |
| Edo Period Series III: Chikamatsu-Joruri | 255,000 | ― | |
| Edo Period Series IV: Essays and Travel Literature | 128,000 | ― | |
| Meiji Era / Taishō Era / Shōwa Era | Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series I: Magazines | 14,180,000 | ― |
| Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series II: Textbooks | 1,058,000 | ― | |
| Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series III: Early Meiji Spoken Language Materials | 193,000 | ― | |
| Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series IV: Modern Novels | 779,000 | ― | |
| Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series V: Newspapers | 407,000 | ― | |
| Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series VI: Rakugo 78 rpm Discs | 104,000 | ― |
