Research on Japanese Kanbun Materials outside Japan

日本自古以来就受到中国文化的影响，与其他属于中国文字所界定的东亚文化圈的国家一样，它一直坚决地侵占中国文化。接受中国文化的具体方法就是研究《看书》文本。因此，许多手稿和印刷版要么从中国直接进入日本，要么通过朝鲜半岛进入日本，日本国内的书籍复制和印刷活动也很兴盛。此外，日本人自己也在看书中创作作品。在日本国内流传的日本人使用的所有这些日本人使用的日本人的日本人的定义是日本的日本人使用的日本人使用的日本人的日本日本人的日本人使用的这些日本人的日本人使用的这些日本人的日本日本人的定义广泛的定义。这项研究的目的是对自明治时期以来离开日本的、目前保存在海外可公开访问的机构中的看包文本进行系统的书目调查，并对稀有书籍材料进行详细的书目注释。2003年至2006年期间，对保存日本的日本的机构有：美国的美国国会图书馆、斯特林纪念图书馆和贝内克珍本书稿图书馆；美国的哥伦比亚大学斯塔尔东亚图书馆、哈佛大学的哈佛燕京图书馆和福克美术馆；英国的大英图书馆；上海的中国图书馆；韩国的韩国研究院等。其中，保存在美国国会图书馆、哥伦比亚大学斯塔尔东亚图书馆、哈佛大学哈佛燕京图书馆以及韩国韩国研究院的日本日本看似材料目录已经编制完成，国会图书馆珍稀藏书的书目也已编撰完毕。

Since earliest times Japan has been influenced by Chinese culture and, like other countries belonging to the East Asian cultural sphere defined by the Chinese script, it has always resolutely appropriated Chinese culture. The concrete method for the reception of Chinese culture has been the study of kanbun texts. Accordingly, many manuscripts and printed editions have reached Japan either directly from China or through the Korean Peninsula, and also within Japan the practices of book copying and printing flourished. Moreover, the Japanese themselves authored works in kanbun. All these kanbun texts circulating within Japan used by Japanese are broadly defined as "Japanese kanbun texts." The goal of the present research has been to conduct a systematic bibliographic investigation regarding kanbun texts that have left Japan since the Meiji Period and that are currently preserved in publicly accessible institutions overseas and to write detailed bibliographic notes on rare book materials. The foreign institutions preserving Japanese kanbun materials where investigations have been conducted from 2003 to 2006 are, in the US, the Library of Congress, the Sterling Memorial Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University, the Harvard-Yenching Library and Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University; in Britain, the British Library; in China, the Shanghai Library; in Korea, the Academy of Korean Studies and others. Among these a catalogue of Japanese kanbun materials preserved, in the US, in the Library of Congress, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library of Columbia University, and the Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard University and, in Korea, in the Academy of Korean Studies has been compiled and bibliographic notes of the rare book holdings of the Library of Congress have been written.