A study on development of literacy and literate culture in ancient regional society focusing on Saikaido region

研究了古代地域社会中识字和识字文化发展的几个方面，包括出土的“象征物”或陶砚、“十卷”或改盘的陶砚和“武功”或墨刻陶器。除了未使用的“代币”外，仔细检查还发现了一定数量的未使用的“十个代币”。“令牌”被认为是不被使用的，因为它们是权力的象征；而实际使用的未使用的“十个代币”被认为是被磨练成墨板但仍然不被使用的代币。在出土“记号”和“十轭”的遗址上，虽然没有发现大量的“bokushodoki”，但所使用的文字种类却很丰富。另一方面，在一个出土了大量‘bokushodoki’的地方，所用的文字差别不大，几乎没有发现‘十个字’，但往往会出土‘Sumidame’或陶器调色板。这表明这些网站在使用性格的活动方面有所不同。

Aspects in the development of literacy and literate culture in the ancient regional society were studied in relation to excavated 'token' or pottery ink slab,'ten-yoken' or dish-diverted pottery ink slab and 'bokushodoki' or pottery with ink inscriptions. Besides unused 'token', a certain number of unused 'ten-yoken' were found when examined closely. 'Token' are thought to remain unused because they were the symbol of power; while unused 'ten-yoken' of practical use are regarded as the ones honed to be used as ink slabs but stay unused. At a site where 'token' and 'ten-yoken' were excavated, 'bokushodoki' were not found in abundance, but the variety of character used is rich. On the other hand, at a site where a large amount of 'bokushodoki' was excavated, character used dose not vary widely and little 'ten-yoken' were found, but 'sumidame' or pottery palette tended to be excavated instead. This suggests the aspect in activities using character differed between those sites.