Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries — John Shaqi
Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries
General
Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries
Japanese literature -- To 1868
” II. ADDENDA TO MAKURA KOTOBA 334
” III. ADDENDA TO GLOSSARY 337
EMENDATIONS
For the necessity of these emendations I am wholly responsible.
In a few of the earlier lays the lines are not properly indented.
In one or two cases the category is wrongly printed as part of the
_dai_--as under Lay 1.
In a very few instances a capital letter is mistakenly used--thus
_Tsuma_ for _tsuma_.
In the following instances it is better to print place-names with
initial capital--Kashihara, Ohotsu, Shirokane, Chitose, Kagu, Katsu,
Tagi, Kamu, Yuki.
Where _eta_ is found it should be read _eba_.
Some few cases of _u_ for _a_, _u_ for _n_, _u_ for _i_, _a_ for
_o_, _e_ for _i_, or the reverse, occur--they are quite obvious.
Occasionally words are joined which on the whole are better separated,
as _Kata nashi_, or the reverse.
MANYÔSHIU.
Lay 20, 4, _omi_, dele _o_.
24, 62 n., for _yum ino_ read _yumi no_.
26, 65, for _wo_ read _mo_.
27, 52, for _imo gara_ read _imo ga na_.
28, 56, for _no_ read _ni_.
29, n. 3, dele (hauka I).
36, 6, for _Fugi_ read _Fuji_.
69, 20, for _kaha_ read _kuha_.
100 (_dai_), read _i tsu tose_.
104, 29, read _taharete_.
105, 41, read _haha_.
107 (_dai_), read _Naniha_.
113, 8, read _kagahi_.
123, 16, for _momo_ read _onomo_.
124, 11, for _hitase_ read _hitasa_.
124, 20, for _skikame_ read _shikame_.
126, 12, for _aho_ read _ahi_.
165, 7, for _afuteshi_, read _afubeshi_.
166, 10, for _kimi_ read _kuni_.
195, 4, for _mi_ read _nu_.
196, 33, } for _nakazu_ read _nakayu_.
180, 8, }
Page 147 above 212 insert--MAKI XVII, KAMI. Same heading to pp. 149, 151.
Lay 221, 28, for _no_ read _mo_.
223, 51, for _yoki_ read _yohi_.
230, 17, for _hashike_ read _hashiki_.
263, 53 n., for ‘lightly’ read ‘gravely, seriously’.
Page 194, l. 5, for _no_ read _ni_.
200, l. 7, for _to_ read _wo_.
201, last line, for oha read oho.
205, l. 13, read _notamahamu_.
206, l. 5, read _nagareki_.
207, l. 9, for _mi_ read _no_.
224, n. 3, for ‘right’ read ‘night’.
237, bottom line, read _Hitori_.
238, l. 8, _mono hito goto_ is better.
239, l. 8 (from bottom), read _gushite_.
245, l. 6, for _niho_ read _nihohi_.
INTRODUCTION
SHORT GRAMMAR OF OLD JAPANESE
The pronunciation of Old Japanese follows a very simple scheme. There
are the five vowels, _a_, _e_, _i_, _o_, _u_, and no diphthongs, and
the following consonants and digraphs _b_, _ch_, _d_, _dz_, _f_, _g_,
_h_, _j_, _k_, _m_, _n_, _r_, _s_, _sh_, _t_, _ts_, _w_, _y_, _z_,
_zh_. The syllables are all open, and consist of
(1) The five vowels.
(2) _b_, _k_, _m_, _n_, _r_, followed by all the vowels.
(3) _s_, _y_, _z_, followed by _a_, _e_, _o_, _u_.
(4) _h_, _w_, followed by _a_, _e_, _i_, _o_.
(5) _d_, _t_, followed by _a_, _e_, _o_.
(6) _f_, followed by _i_, _u_.
(7) _ch_, _j_, _sh_, _zh_, followed by _i_.
(8) _ts_, _dz_, followed by _u_.
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