...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...-­ 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... of the area. 42. “Inazuma ni owarete hashiru tsutsumi kana.” Haiku accompanying a photograph by the author in “Omokage sny shashin ichiran” (“List of Photographs Accompanying ‘Impressions’  in Nagai Kaf zensh, 523...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...- 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...

... [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...

... 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...