This time Kawano Tomoya (MA student, Hokkaidō University) and Yang Huijing (PhD student, Kyōto University) gave presentations. Yumiyama Shintarō (MA student, Kyōto University) and Heo Jihyang (Visiting Researcher, Ritsumeikan University) were our commentators.

 

　Mr. Yumiyama, a commentator, asked about the possibility that Kiyotsura’s figure, who was also an official, was projected onto the image of Yasunori in the Biography. Also, it was pointed out from the floor that the descriptions of “barbarians” were possibly based on patterns found in historical narratives such as The Book of the Later Han, and there were discussions about issues with reading histories written in kanbun during that time.

　Ms. Yang’s presentation about the Yuhap, a kanji learning book that has been distributed since the 16^th century, along with summarizing a bibliography of various manuscripts remaining in Japan discussed its position as a primer for learning kanji. She focused on Japan’s existing manuscripts, especially those held in Kyoto University’s Faculty of Literature Library that have not been taken up in previous studies and described features such as the book that is thought to be the original copy and marginal notes about Japanese readings and correct characters. Moreover, Yang pointed out that, in contrast with the Chinese text Thousand Character Classic that was created using classical idioms of historical events and literature, the Yuhap is based on words related to daily life, and she argued that the stream of kanji’s modernization on the Korean peninsula can be seen in the formation and distribution of the Yuhap.

　Ms. Heo (the commentator) asked about the possibility that the Kyoto University manuscripts had been transmitted through the hands of several owners. In addition, there were questions from the floor about whether there was a connection between the Yuhap and Kaibara Ekiken’s Senji ruigō as well as discussions about connections with modern dictionaries.