A Dig and an Investigation and a Study of Stylus-Impressed Writing in Every Place of Western Japan. Development and a Study of a Instrument for Decoding Stylus-Impressed Characters

1. 手写文件的发现和调查报告。迄今为止，在日本已经发现了3070份手写文件。在我们项目的三年里，这些文件的三分之一在日本各地被发现。这些文件中有大量位于日本西部地区。很明显，在西部各县仍有大量文件未被发现。这些文件也被发现在宫崎县和冲绳县；是他们以前从未发现过的地方。这一发现有力地表明，日本所有47个县都使用过角斗。非正式公布调查结果。在3年的时间里，平成9年发现了489篇，平成10年发现了386篇，平成11年12月发现了187篇。每年非正式地发布索引，以便对每个文件的标题进行编目，并记录其发现的地点。这些目录……更多的分发给大学和那些拥有令人印象深刻的作品的组织。关于手写笔写作项目的专题讨论会。自平成4号以来，共举办了9次座谈会。其中6次是为项目做准备，其中3次是在1996年、1997年和1998年夏季项目期间举行的。在这些专题讨论会中，参与该项目的成员和人员介绍和讨论了他们的研究和报告方法。我们还提出了关于我们项目的特定领域的报告，从而将这个项目的许多不同方面结合在一起，并创建了一个共同的信息库。一种破译工具的发展，以阅读手写笔迹。这个项目的一名成员吉泽靖一发明了一种破译仪器，用来读取手写文件上褪色的字迹。该仪器的最新版本在项目的最后三年得到了改进，在项目过程中经常使用。这台机器目前在广岛大学使用。研究的新前沿。与特定地区相对应的古代方言通过这些新的手写文件的发现变得明显。我们相信，日本方言的历史现在可以具体地追溯出来了。这个项目的下一步。我们计划：1。在全国范围内组织对手写文档进行更深入的搜索，并对手写文字进行一般性研究。对那些保存完好的文本进行详细的研究。强调这些发现的重要性，因为它们表明了日本历史上各种形式的教育，证明了日本文化的多样性。少

1. Report on the discovery and survey of stylus-impressed documents.i. To date, 3070 stylus-impressed documents have been discovered in Japan. During the three years of our project, one third of these documents were found in all parts of Japan. A large number of these documents were located in the Western region of Japan.ii. It has become apparent that a large number of documents have remained undiacovered in each of the western prefectures.iii. These documents were also located in the Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures ; regions were they had never been found before. This discovery strongly suggests that kakuhitsu was used in all 47 prefectures of japan.2. Unofficial publication of the survey results.During the 3-year project, 489 texts were found in Heisei 9, 386 texts in Heisei 10 and 187 texts were found up until December of Heisei 11. Yearly indexes were unofficially published in order to catalogue the title of each document and to record the place of its discovery. These catalogues … More were distributed to universities and to those organizations having in their possession stsylus-impressed writings.3. Symposia on the stylus-impressed writing project.Nine symposia have been held since Heisei 4. Six of these were in preparation to the project and three of these were held during the course of the project in the summer of 1996, 1997 and 1998. During these symposia, members and people co-operating in this project introduced and discussed their research and reporting methodology. We also presented reports on our particular area of the projact, thus bringing together many and different aspects to this project and creating a common information base.4. The development of a deciphering instrument to read stylus-impressed writing.A member of this project, Yasukazu Yoshizawa, invented a deciphering instrument in order to read the faded out writing of stylus-impressed documents. Tha newest version of this instrument, which was improved during the last three years of the project, was very often used during the course of the project. This machine presently in use at Hiroshima University.5. A new frontier of research.Ancient dialects correspoding to specific regions have become evident through the discovery of these new stylus-impressed documents. We believe that the history of Japan's dialects can now be concretely traced.6. The next step to this project.We are planning to :i. Organize a more intense search of stylus-impressed documents on a national scale and conduct an general study of stylus-impressed writings.ii. Perform a detailed study of those texts that are in good condition.iii. Highlight the importance of these discoveries as an indication of the various forms of education in Japan's history and evidence of the varied culotures in Japan.iv. Research the stylus-impressed writings that have been discovered in the Dunhuang text in mainland China and in medieval Western manuscripts. Less