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• CHJを用いた研究業績一覧
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Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series: Overview INTRODUCTION

Here we publically release under the title "Corpus of Historical Japanese Meiji-Taishō Period Series I, Magazines," data for magazines from the Meji and Taishō periods, under the title "Corpus of Historical Japanese Meiji-Taishō Period Series II, Textbooks," data for government-designated national language textbooks used in elementary and higher elementary schools, and under the title "Corpus of Historical Japanese Meiji-Taishō Period Series III, Early Meiji Spoken Language Materials," the principle data for spoken language published in the early Meiji period, and data for 21 novels (by 21 authors) from the Mid-Meiji period through the Taishō period under the title of “Corpus of Historical Japanese Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series IV Modern Novels”.

※ Long Unit Word information has not been annotated for this data.

• · Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series I: Magazines
• · Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series II: Textbooks
• · Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series III: Early Meiji Spoken Language Materials
• · Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series IV: Modern Novels

Magazines, Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series I

Overview

The "Corpus of Historical Japanese Meiji-Taishō Period Series I, Magazines" covers the published material for each year in a determined series of years for magazines representative of the Meiji and Taishō periods, respectively. Taking as its material magazines with a great variety of article genres and a great range of authors, the corpus is designed to enable a broad survey of aspects of written language, such as the shift from the classical style that was mainstream in the early Meiji period to the establishment of Contemporary Japanese, and to capture change in modern language diachronically.

Introductory notes / Users' manual / Annotation guidelines

In addition to the Short Unit Word morphological information rendered searchable in the text of this corpus, information on the genre, title of the magazine, article, and author has been annotated and can be accessed in the search results of the corpus search application Chūnagon.
Please read the following abstract for this corpus before use:

• · Explanatory Notes for the Text, and the Display Categories for Chūnagon in the Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series I: Magazines from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)

Please see the following pages for details on the specifications of the four sub-corpora that comprise this corpus:

• · Meiroku Zasshi Corpus
• · Kokumin no Tomo Corpus
• · Taiyō Corpus
• · the Corpus of Modern Women's Magazines

The Short Unit Word morphological information for this corpus has been annotated according to the distinction between Literary and Colloquial Japanese, set out in the Annotation Guidelines listed below:
Please consult the Annotation Guidelines before use.

• · Literary Japanese
    Annotation Guidelines for Short Unit Words in Mid-Modern Literary Japanese UniDic Ver.1.1


• · Colloquial Japanese
    Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, 4th Edition (Volume 1)
    Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, 4th Edition (Volume 2)

Links to images of the original texts of the magazines

Images of the original texts of the magazines can be accessed through the search results from Chūnagon, so that the text of the corpus can be compared to the original documents during use. Please note that images of the original texts for Jogaku Zasshi, Jogaku Sekai, and Fujin Kurabu are not available.

• · Meiroku Zasshi NINJAL repository Meiroku Zasshi Images
• · Tōyō Gakugei Zasshi NINJAL repository Tōyō Gakugei Zasshi Images
• · Kokumin no Tomo NINJAL repository Kokumin no Tomo Images
• · Taiyō JapanKnowledge, JKBooks Images made available (separate contract with JKBooks required)

Note for Users

Presentations of research results using this corpus must include a citation taking the general form of the example below (with appropriate modifications depending on the version and the date of access):

* As long as one of either the version or the date of access is clearly cited, the other can be omitted, as below:

Users will need to access the Corpus of Historical Japanese through the online search engine Chūnagon. Completion of a Users Licensing Agreement is required.
Please refer to the following: The Corpus of Historical Japanese: How to apply

Development Staff

The corpus compilation was supported by the "Design for a Diachronic Corpus" (2009-2016) project and the "Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese" (2016-) project, and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15H01883 (2015-2019).

Textbooks, Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series II

Overview

In 1903, in accordance with amendments to the Elementary School Order, a national textbook system was established that limited the use of textbooks in elementary schools to those for which the Ministry of Education owned the copyright, and from 1904 national textbooks were used in Japanese language classes. The national textbooks for Japanese language were compiled with the aim of accomplishing, through national language education, the completion of a style unifying writing and speech as a written language form, and the establishment of a standard spoken language. The materials were major contributors to the establishment and spread of the standard language used in modern Japan. In the "Meiji and Taisho Edition II Textbooks" corpus are recorded the nationally prescribed Japanese language textbook used at elementary schools (Period 1 to Period 6) and the nationally-prescribed Japanese language textbook used at higher elementary schools (Period 1). The period (the first year of use) and the name of each textbook recorded are as follows:

The data for the elementary school textbooks in this corpus are based on the text data of the body of text used in creating the "Kokutei-Yōgo-Sōran CD-ROM Edition" (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 1997). In addition, the data for higher elementary school textbooks is based on the data from the separately created Morphologically Annotated Corpus of "Koutou-Shōgaku Tokuhon" (higher elementary school readers) (Asuko Kondo, Toshinobu Ogiso, Fumiko Kato, (2010), 'The Morphologically Annotated Corpus of "Koutou-Shōgaku Tokuhon"' ('The Collected Papers from the "Information Processing Society of Japan Symposium (Jinmonkon 2010 Collected Papers)', 2010:15, pp.189-194). The present corpus unifies these two sets of data and reconstructs the information in line with the design of the "Corpus of Historical Japanese".

Introductory notes / Users' manual / Annotation guidelines

In addition to the Short Unit Word morphological information rendered searchable in the text of this corpus, information on the period and grade has been annotated and can be accessed in the search results of the corpus search application Chūnagon. Please read the following abstract for this corpus before use:

• ・Explanatory Notes for the Text, and the Display Categories for Chūnagon in the Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series II: National textbooks from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)
  

The Short Unit Word morphological information for this corpus has been annotated according to the distinction between Literary and Colloquial Japanese, set out in the Annotation Guidelines listed below:

Please consult the Annotation Guidelines before use.

Links to images of the original texts of the national textbooks

Images of the original texts of the national textbooks can be accessed through the search results from Chūnagon, so that the text of the corpus can be compared to the original documents during use.

• • First period Jinjōshōgaku-tokuhon NINJAL repository Jinjōshōgaku-tokuhon Images


• • First period Kōtōshōgaku-tokuhon NINJAL repository Kōtōsyōgaku-tokuhon Images

Note for Users

Presentations of research results using this corpus must include a citation taking the general form of the example below (with appropriate modifications depending on the version and the date of access):

* As long as one of either the version or the date of access is clearly cited, the other can be omitted, as below:

Users will need to access the Corpus of Historical Japanese through the online search engine Chūnagon. Completion of a Users Licensing Agreement is required.
Please refer to the following: The Corpus of Historical Japanese: How to apply

Development Staff

* Titles are current with the time of development.

The corpus compilation was supported by the "Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese" (2016-) project.

Early Meiji Spoken Language Materials, Meiji Era / Taishō Era III

Overview

The "Corpus of Historical Japanese Meiji-Taishō Period Series III, Early Meiji Spoken Language Materials" is a corpus collecting the principle materials for spoken language published in the early Meiji period. The materials collected are considered to be crucial for the understanding of the spoken language of the time, and of the colloquial writing style (genbun'icchi-tai --the writing style unifying Classical and Spoken Japanese) which spread and became established in the Meiji and Taishō Periods.

Overview / Users' manual / Annotation guidelines

Please read the following the overview of this corpus before use:

• · Overview; Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series III: Early Meiji Spoken Language Materials from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)

The Short Unit Word morphological information for this corpus has been annotated according to the distinction between Literary and Colloquial Japanese, set out in the Annotation Guidelines listed below:
Please consult the Annotation Guidelines before use.

• · Literary Japanese
    Annotation Guidelines for Short Unit Words in Mid-Modern Literary Japanese UniDic Ver.1.1


• · Colloquial Japanese
    Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, 4th Edition (Volume 1)
    Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, 4th Edition (Volume 2)

Note for Users

Presentations of research results using this corpus must include a citation taking the general form of the example below (with appropriate modifications depending on the version and the date of access):

* As long as one of either the version or the date of access is clearly cited, the other can be omitted, as below:

Users will need to access the Corpus of Historical Japanese through the online search engine Chūnagon. Completion of a Users Licensing Agreement is required.
Please refer to the following: The Corpus of Historical Japanese: How to apply

Development Staff

The corpus compilation was supported by the "Design for a Diachronic Corpus" (2009-2016) project and the "Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese" (2016-) project, JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15H01883 (2015-2019), and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15H01883 (2015-2019), and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17K02786 (2017-2020).

Modern Novels, Meiji Era / Taishō Era IV

Overview

Modern novels are literary works written in a new style of language, born out of the influence of “civilization and enlightenment” which incorporated the culture and thought of the Western world. For research into the unification of the written and spoken language, a language change that is one the symbols of Japanese modernity, these are indispensable resources. Furthermore, they are crucial resources that contain history and achievements that have been the object of research on modern language in every field, beginning with those of vocabulary, style, and orthography.

Works Comprising the Corpus, and their Source Texts

The following 21 works are the novels that comprise this corpus:

Overview / Users' manual / Annotation guidelines

Please read the following the overview of this corpus before use:

• · Overview; Meiji Era / Taishō Era Series IV: Modern Novels from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)

The Short Unit Word morphological information for this corpus has been annotated according to the distinction between Literary and Colloquial Japanese, set out in the Annotation Guidelines listed below:
Please consult the Annotation Guidelines before use.

• · Literary Japanese
    Annotation Guidelines for Short Unit Words in Mid-Modern Literary Japanese UniDic Ver.1.1


• · Colloquial Japanese
    Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, 4th Edition (Volume 1)
    Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, 4th Edition (Volume 2)

Links to the original texts

With regard to the 10 works for which images of the original texts have been made public, it is possible to refer to images of the original texts from the National Diet Library Digital Collections while using the corpus by accessing them through search results generated in Chūnagon. (Please note that, out of the 21 works comprising this corpus, the 11 works for which images of the original texts have not been made public are not available for reference. Furthermore, please be aware in advance that with regard to the images that have been made open to the public, in addition to incomplete sections, there are also parts containing marginalia, tearing, and other damage that make viewing difficult.)

Note for Users

Presentations of research results using this corpus must include a citation taking the general form of the example below (with appropriate modifications depending on the version and the date of access):

* As long as one of either the version or the date of access is clearly cited, the other can be omitted, as below:

Users will need to access the Corpus of Historical Japanese through the online search engine Chūnagon. Completion of a Users Licensing Agreement is required.
Please refer to the following: The Corpus of Historical Japanese: How to apply

Development Staff

The corpus compilation was supported by the "Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese" (2016-) project.