Studies on Han Wooden Strips excavated at Xuan-quan-zhi Dun-huang in 1991-92

1)出版了《1930—1931年和1973—1974年聚岩汉人木条索引》。包括以下指标：(A)地名，(B)人名，(C)官衔，(D)文章，(E)汉纸上的所有文字。这是由文部科学省从1990年到今年支持的国际科学研究项目的成果。2)研究者之一的Momiyama Akira发现了一个汉族习俗，当他们在纸条上写一些数字时，他们会在纸条的右侧划一个缺口，表示数字。这些缺口的目的是保护数字不被非法改变。这种智慧似乎与中世纪的统计是一样的。3)调查人员井正雄、吉村正之和助理调查员明多太参观了内蒙古埃德森戈尔地区的遗址，在那里，奥雷尔·斯坦、福克·伯格曼和中国考古学家发掘出了汉人的遗迹。经过西方学者的考察，除了NHK电视台的“丝绸之路”摄制组外，再也没有外国人到过那里。他们参观了汉代的甲阔后宽遗址A8，并确认了出土地点，还参观了汉代的真言城——哈拉霍图城遗址。4)《楚衍汉人图集》时隔22年才在中国出版。但是，照片的清晰度不好。当我看到他们的原始版画时，它是相当清晰的，并期待着书。这取决于不熟练的出版技术。我请中国的出版商制作在日本印刷的印版，但经过长时间的谈判，由于财务状况，没有成功。这对学者来说是一个巨大的损失。

1) We published an index named "Index of Han Wooden Strips found at Ju-yan in 1930-31 and 1973-74".It includes those indexes as follows ; (A) Names of place, (B) Names of person, (C) Official titles, (D) Articles, (E) All charactors written on Han Strips.This is a result of our International Scientific Research Programs since 1990 to this year, supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture.2) Momiyama Akira, one of investigator, found a Han custom that, when they write some figures on the strips, they cut notches on the right side of strips which means the figure.The aim of these notches are to protect the numbers from illegal change.This wisdom seems same idea of tally in the Middle Ages.3) Investigators, Ukai Masao, Yoshimura Masayuki and assistant investigator Kadota Akira visited the sites of Edsen-gol region, Inner Mongolia, where Han strips excavated by Aurel Stein, Folke Bergman and Chinese archaeologist.And after their explorations of Western scholars, there were no foreigners visited there except the NHK television team of "Silk Road".They visited A8 site where colled Chia-ek-hou-kuan in Han time and confirmed the exeavated places, also, visited the Khara-khoto city site where was Jyn-yan in Han times.4) "Plates of Chu-yan-han-jen" published in China after 22 years wait al last.But, the clearness of photographs are not good.When I saw their original prints, it was rather clear, and had expects for books.It depends on unskillful tecnique of publication.I asked Chinese publisher to make plates for printing in Japan, but after long negotiations it lasts unsuccessed, because of financial condition.It is a great loss for scholars.