EASIA234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lotus Sutra, Hentaigana, Chinese Poetry
13 Dec 2016
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Ea 240 september 15, 2016 : poetry in japanese and chinese. Chinese influence is there for springboarding, and influence. Chinese language had relationships with religious, philosophical documents, and documents/politics in ge(cid:374)eral. It(cid:859)s i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:449)as felt in many different ways, and was seen as higher up, hierarchically. Scholar of chinese, did a lot of his work primarily in chinese. 4) chinese poetry and other literary writing in classical chinese. 6) japanese prose (vernacular tales, diaries: very little respect, because it(cid:859)s asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith fi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d fi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)ere asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith lies, and lies were sinful in buddhism. 9th century: hiragana and katakana developed: developed by monks as reading aids for sutras, katakana: used for writing foreign words, modernly. Buddhism, historically: hiraga(cid:374)a: e(cid:374)tire ka(cid:374)ji (cid:449)ritte(cid:374) (cid:858)(cid:272)ursi(cid:448)el(cid:455)(cid:859), (cid:272)ur(cid:448)a(cid:272)eous. Hiragana and katakana derivations: same base character, different shaped kana. 1900 (meiji 33): modern hiragana and katakana defined (46 each: variant kana was used before the modernization of hiragana.
