Verifying the Authorship of Saikaku Ihara’s Work in Early Modern Japanese Literature: A Quantitative Approach
Verifying the Authorship of Saikaku Ihara’s Work in Early Modern Japanese Literature: A Quantitative Approach
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日本早期现代文学中西鹤伊原作品的作者身份验证:定量方法
DOI:
10.1093/llc/fqu049
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发表时间:
2016
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0.8
通讯作者:
Ayaka Uesaka & Masakatsu Murakami
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作者:
K. Fujioka;N. Miyamoto;H. Toya;K. Okano;H. Tokuyama;藤岡孝佑,戸谷博希,宮本尚也,岡野健太郎,徳山英利;Ayaka Uesaka & Masakatsu Murakami
In this article, we focus on the problem of verifying Saikaku Ihara’s authorship, especially for Yorozu no humihougu (), a posthumous work. Saikaku Ihara ()(c. 1642–93) is one of the most famous writers of the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan. Saikaku’s works are known for their significance for developing Japanese novels today. For a long time, researchers have tried to identify Saikaku’s works by investigating the history, content, format, and other features. However, it remained unclear which works were really written by Saikaku. Meanwhile, the potential of quantitative analysis of textual data has dramatically advanced. To resolve Saikaku’s authorship problem, our laboratory worked with Saikaku researchers to develop a database of works attributed to Saikaku. Based on these new capabilities, we examined Yorozu no humihougu () using quantitative analysis. In this study, we compared Yorozu no humihougu () and Kousyoku ichidai otoko (), which has been verified to be a work of Saikaku. We examined six grammatical categories using principal component analysis where significant differences were found. Yorozu no humihougu () was revealed to be characterized as having a higher frequency of verbs and a lower frequency of particles than in Kousyoku ichidai otoko ().