英文摘要 |
Kimura Masakoto (1827-1913) was a scholar of classical Japanese literature in the Meiji era. His studies of the Man'yōshū are still famous, and influential. The Japanese scholar Kojima Noriyuki has pointed out that Kimura's studies were influenced by Qing era “evidential scholarship”. However, this question has not been thoroughly investigated. Focusing on Kimura's attention to variant, unorthodox character forms in the Man'yōshū, the present essay shows that Kimura was influenced by the practices of evidential scholarship. However, he was also influenced by different approaches in Japanese scholarship, where greater stress was placed on the preservation of these variant character forms. |