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Muromachi Period Series: Overview INTRODUCTION

NINJAL makes publicly available the morphologically annotated data of the Toraakira-bon Kyōgen Collection (Muromachi Period Series, Volume I of the Corpus of Historical Japanese), Christian Materials (Kirishitan Shiryō) (Muromachi Period Series, Volume II), and Chūka Jakuboku Shishō (Muromachi Period Series, Volume III).

• · Muromachi Period Series I: Kyōgen
• · Muromachi Period Series II: Christian Materials (Kirishitan Shiryō)
• · Muromachi Period Series III: Shōmono

Kyōgen, Muromachi Period Series I

Overview

Theatric works known as kyōgen (lit. "crazy speech") are considered to be crucial material on spoken language from the Muromachi Period through the Edo Period.
Among these, the Toraakira-bon (from the hand of Ōkura Yatarō Toraakira (Kan'ei 19 (1642)), 13th generation patriarch of the principle house of the Ōkura school), represent materials of the first order in terms of quality and volume.
For the source text we have taken what, as of March 2015, represents the most recent critical annotated edition of the Toraakira-bon: Otsuka Mitsunobu (ed.) (2006) Ōkura Toraakira Nō Kyōgen-shū (Seibundō shuppan)

In this corpus we have

• rendered searchable the works of from waki-kyōgen no rui (auspicious plays) to yorozu atsume rui (myriad gallimaufry) works, including the 236 hon-kyōgen (stand-alone dramas) ^* (excepting the Introductions and the Epilogues);
• undertaken a recension of part of the texts, adding information about their classification and the identities of the speaking parts;
• added annotation of morphological information to words, including their "readings" (pronunciations), part-of-speech, inflection, etc.

* The numbering of the works is taken from Ikeda, Hiroshi; Kitahara, Yasuo (1972) Ōkura Toraakira-bon Kyōgen no kenkyū, Main texts, Vol. 1 (Hyōgen-sya).

Texts / Works

Overview / Annotation Guidelines

Please read before using.

• · Explanatory Notes of the Text, Display Categories for Chūnagon in the Muromachi Period Series I: Kyōgen from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)
• · Overview of the Morphological Information in the Muromachi Period Series I: Kyōgen from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)
• · Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Muromachi Period Series from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)

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 Chunagon. 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.

Christian Materials (Kirishitan Shiryō), Muromachi Period Series II

Overview

The resources known as "Christian materials" are documents written by Catholic missionaries, mainly the Jesuits, from the 16th to the 17th century AD, for the purposes of proselytization. These rank next to kyōgen as important materials for the study of late Middle Japanese. The text Feiqe no Monogatari is a digest text of the Japanese epic Heike-monogatari. The text Esopo no Fabulas is a Japanese translation of Aesop's Fables. Both texts are written in the spoken language of the time, using the Roman alphabet with Portuguese spellings. They reveal information about the phonology of Japanese language which is not amenable to study by referring only to Japanese characters.

In this corpus we have

• transliterated the Roman alphabet to Japanese characters. In order to do this, we used information from the formOrthBase feature of UniDic. You can also refer to the Roman alphabet of the original texts in alignment with the Japanese transliteration.
• added annotation for morphological information such as part-of-speech, inflection, pronunciation, etc., to the words in the text.

The following references were used for transliteration Roman alphabet to Japanese characters and conversion to electronic texts of the original texts.

We consulted the original print at the British Library and confirmed where it is difficult to read. We deeply thank the British Library, East Asian Collections, Japanese Collections for allowing us to browse these valuable materials.

Texts / Works

Overview / Annotation Guidelines

Please read before using.

• · Explanatory Notes of the Text, Display Categories for Chūnagon in the Muromachi Period Series II: Christian Materials from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)
• · Overview of the Morphological Information in the Muromachi Period Series II: Christian Materials from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)
• · Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Muromachi Period Series from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)

Note for Users

Presentations of research results using the Corpus of Historical Japanese 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 Chunagon. 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.

Shōmono, Muromachi Period Series III

Overview

Shōmono is a general term for commentaries and lecture materials on Chinese classics, Buddhist scriptures, and Japanese texts, compiled by monks and scholars from the 15th through the 16th centuries. Along with kyōgen and Christian materials, shōmono are regarded as important materials for the study of spoken language from Late Middle Japanese. Chūka Jakuboku Shishō (Commentary on Chinese and Japanese Poetries), by Nyogetsu Juin, mid-16th century, is a compilation of 261 Chinese and Japanese poems with their commentaries, and is one of the representative shōmono texts. It has a structure in which Chinese poems are followed by Japanese commentaries, making its source texts easy to reference.

* As of March 2026, only Volume one of the four volumes is available.

In this corpus we have

• based this corpus on an independently edited text, created by collating the 18-line movable-type edition (considered the most authoritative edition) with other versions, with reference to Kamei (ed.).
• added annotation for morphological information such as part-of-speech, inflection, pronunciation, etc., to the words in the text.
• enabled users to refer to images of a copy close to the source text (The University of Tokyo Digital Archive) from the search results.

Texts / Works

Overview / Annotation Guidelines

Please read before using.

• · Explanatory Notes of the Text, Display Categories for Chūnagon in the Muromachi Period Series III: Shōmono from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)
• · Overview of the Morphological Information in the Muromachi Period Series III: Shōmono from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)
• · Annotation Guidelines for Morphological Information in the Muromachi Period Series from the Corpus of Historical Japanese (CHJ)

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 Chunagon. Completion of a Users Licensing Agreement is required.
Please refer to the following: The Corpus of Historical Japanese: How to apply

Development Staff

This corpus is part of the results of the JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Construction of the ‘Shōmono Corpus’ and Research on the History of the Japanese Language Using the Corpus” (Project Number: JP21H04349, Principal Investigator: Aoki, Hirofumi), “Construction and Publication of a ‘Shōmono Corpus’ and Comprehensive Research on the History of Japanese Language Using Diachronic Corpora” (Project Number: JP24H00089, Principal Investigator: Aoki, Hirofumi), and the NINJAL collaborative research project “Extending the Diachronic Corpus Through an Open Co-construction Environment”.

Furthermore, with regard to the demo version "Himawari Edition Shōmono Corpus" (ver. 2024.3, text search only), which was published prior to the release of the Corpus of Historical Japanese Muromachi Period Series III: Shōmono, this is available for download from the following:
Furuta, Tatsuhiro; Kitazaki, Yuho; Aoki, Hirofumi (eds.) (2023) Himawari Edition of Shōmono Corpus (ver. 2024.3)