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positions (2000) 8 (2): 465–497.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Tomiko Yoda 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Literary History against the National Frame, or Gender
and the Emergence of Heian Kana Writing
Tomiko Yoda
A number of narrative tales and diaries written during the mid-Heian period
are counted among...
Journal Article
positions (1994) 2 (2): 250–273.
Published: 01 May 1994
... Japan
without the gembun’itchi, that is, without reference to a modern Japan and
a national language. As a result discussions of the invention of the kana syl-
labary in the early Heian period are most often couched in terms of pho...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (2): 255–292.
Published: 01 May 2017
... artfully crafted (takumi na) sentences filled
with kana and in which five or six characters are written continuously
without the brush leaving the paper. The opening and closing salutations
always contain a luxurious amount of white space...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (2): 263–268.
Published: 01 May 2000
... stretching back into
the early twentieth century. All the essays share a common historic period.
The remaining essays go in different directions.
In“LiteraryHistoryagainsttheNationalFrame,orGenderandtheEmer-
gence of Heian Kana...
Journal Article
positions (2006) 14 (3): 535–566.
Published: 01 August 2006
... treatment of signs is not modern [i.e., modernist].
Nonetheless, to equate kana with écriture leaves no room for a historical
articulation of kana usage and waka practice.”46 In other words, whatever
resemblance there is between an expanded notion...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 February 2014
...-
school. Ongnyŏn learns the Japanese alphabet, kana, and basic reading skills
of Japanese not in school but at home from the live-in maid of the Inoues,
Yukiko (Sŏlcha in Korean reading);29 in place of Ongnyŏn’s school teach-
ers, the visitors...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (2): 503–540.
Published: 01 May 1999
...
language and the national script), which involved two major questions:
Which kana syllabary, traditional or pronunciation-based, should be used?
To what degree should Chinese characters be allowed? Those who, like
Ueda, espoused Western...
Journal Article
positions (2007) 15 (3): 511–552.
Published: 01 August 2007
... genres organized by a complex of images and ver-
bal texts, such as the seventeenth-century kana zôshi (kana booklet) and the
eighteenth-century kibyôshi (“yellow-cover” fiction) or eiri kyôgenbon (play
scripts with illustrations). In these media...
Journal Article
positions (1998) 6 (3): 597–635.
Published: 01 August 1998
... are supplements.”44 Mori evokes the
logic of supplementarity, which he rapidly extends to other systems, such as
the Japanese phonetic syllabary: “To rescue today’s kana from the rank of
supplement, value it as you would rice. There is only one...
Journal Article
positions (1998) 6 (2): 303–322.
Published: 01 May 1998
... conventions and using a nonstandard system of transcrip-
tion made up of only kana phonetic symbols and the kanji characters for
numerals as phonemes. One could not say that Ileguchi Nao’s thought was
modern in a Western secularized sense; nor...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (2): 283–305.
Published: 01 May 1995
... to lose?
Because the great transformations of the universe are unceasingly mov-
ing. Time, even if cherished and considered precious, cannot abide long
among humans. Which kana, among the infinite tialpas, is this “today...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (2): 279–303.
Published: 01 May 2008
... 290
inscribed in Japanese phonetic kana characters. Other indigenous vocabu-
laries are either translated into Japanese or shown only in Chinese char-
acters, which are also intelligible to the Japanese readership. Without...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (2): 201–229.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the
area.
42. “Inazuma ni owarete hashiru tsutsumi kana.” Haiku accompanying a photograph by the author
in “Omokage sny shashin ichiran” (“List of Photographs Accompanying ‘Impressions’
in Nagai Kaf zensh, 523...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (1): 159–187.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of sexualizing beings and simultaneously rendering them nonthreatening.” Accordingly, in addition to meaning “to hug,” the word dakko can carry overtly sexual connotations that vulgarize this basic meaning. When written in the kana alphabet, dakko だっこ can mean “to make love to” or “to have sex...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 683–711.
Published: 01 August 2009
... examples include “Sora ga shiranai ame ga fut-
teita” (“A Rain the Sky Knew Not Fell on a pop-inflected 2004 CD by
Kamiya Chihiro; “Kana-ami no nai shima” (“Island with No Wire Fences
Roberson ❘❘ Memory and Music in Okinawa: Cultural Politics of War and Peace 703...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 February 2015
... restaurants, shops, and
nightclubs. Though often advertising in Japanese kana script, most of these
retail businesses were Chinese owned. This entire area was cordoned off by
several hundred police, still providing access on foot. One could argue...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (1): 159–205.
Published: 01 February 2009
...-
kana [phonetic characters] that kindai minzoku should be read and under-
stood as ‘Nation.’ ” 37 Now in actual fact, the term Volk is not used in the
original and must have been inserted by Doak in place of minzoku or Nation
for fear...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (2): 593–647.
Published: 01 May 1999
... [the records of ancient matters]. He
annotated the Kojiki and rewrote it in phonetic kana characters, thereby making this ancient
Harootunian and Sakai I Japan Studies and Cultural Studies 64 7
history accessible...
Journal Article
positions (1997) 5 (1): 171–219.
Published: 01 February 1997
... that the Japanese
prostitutes were better educated than the Korean women. According to a
national survey on literacy rates, 237.56 out of 1,000Japanese women living
in Korea were completely illiterate, that is, could read neither kana nor...