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Contributions from: Michael Watson, Edward Kamens, Hideyuki Morimoto, Joan Piggott
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Has anyone used the Iwanami CD-ROM of the 21 imperial anthologies? It came out in July this year. I would like to hear from anyone who has used it.
I introduce this CD-ROM below together with others I have actually used. Can anyone add more information, or suggest other CD-ROM resources that are useful for teaching and/or research in our field/period?
21-daishu (Shoohoo-bon) edited: Nakamura Yasuo, Tachikawa Yoshihito, Sugita Mayuko. price: 12,000 yen. Distributed by Iwanami shoten ISBN 4-00-130094-X C3892 published July 28, 1999
Japanese:
二十一代集 〔正保版本〕CD−ROM
中村 康夫，立川 美彦，杉田 まゆ子 監修
1999年7月28日 発行
Lest anyone asks, "nijuichidaishu" or "the Collections of Twenty-one Reigns" refers to the 21 officially commissioned anthologies of waka, from the Kokinshu (10C) to Shinshokukokinshu (1439) -- see The Princeton Companion of Classical Japanese Literature, p. 342, for a full list.
This CD-ROM was developed as part of a project at NIJL (Kokubungaku kenkyu shiryokan, www.nijl.ac.jp). Presumably to avoid copyright problems, the editors chose a base text from the Edo period, a rufubon of the Shoohoo period (1644-1648). According to the Iwanami url textual variants are noted, and a wide variety of searches are possible: text, yomi, author, kotobagaki. Orders can be made from the url above. The price of 12,000 yen for this CD-ROM is to be welcomed, high as it still may seem.
Note that by comparison: The Kadokawa Shinpen kokka taikan (1996) is priced at 280,000 yen. ISBN 4-04-908101-6. This contains all 10 volumes of the printed Shinpen kokka taikan (1162 poetry collections, official and private), some 450,000 poems in all. Allows free word searches that are impossible with the printed version. Still hard to understand why it must be sold at a cost equivalent to the printed series.
Mac/Windows. Iwanami's own "Hachidaishu" (i.e. first 8 imperial anthologies only) is priced 52,000. ISBN 4-00-130029-X. With latest commentary of the ShinNKBT editions. Very handy despite some restrictions on what text material can be copied electronically. And now seems way overpriced. Mac/Windows.
Some of you may know already that the Kodansha Encyclopedia
of Japan is now available on CD-ROM, albeit only for Windows
95/98/NT. I recently purchased it and found it easy to install
and use.
Price 18,800 yen + tax ISBN 4-06-209410-X
Further information on Japanese only web-page: http://www.kodansha.co.jp/eoj/
[Unfortunately this is the Concise Edition, not the multi-volume
edition.]
Though a Mac person, I use a second-hand Windows laptop for portable reference. This encyclopedia is ideal for that purpose. The hard-disk installation option (120 mb) permits access to a large textual database. The CD-ROM (and drive) is necessary only to show pictures or play sounds. Or you can install just the search engine and run off the CD-ROM. Searching is fast and painless. The text is all in English, the manual is bilingual. An English-Japanese dictionary is included, presumably for Japanese users.
Finally a CD-ROM called "Konjaku Mojikyo" (今昔文字鏡) AI-NET Corporation 1998. ISBN 4-314-90009-1.
This contains TrueType fonts for 80,000 kanji and other characters (Sanskrit, for example). The excellent search engine allows you to search by radical or element, reading (Chinese, Korean or Japanese)... The characters you find can be used for printing (TrueType fonts are clear) or for web-pages (gif images are included).
[Details about Konjaku Mojikyo omitted here--for full explanation and subsequent discussion see: http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~watson/pmjs/mojikyo.html]
The price is not inconsiderable (28,000 yen) but if your research leads you into areas where the JIS limitations hurt (less than 7000 characters available), then this is surely the answer. For the moment at least. I'd be interested to hear of others' experience with these kinds of electronic reference materials.
Edward Kamens writes:
I have not acquired the Iwanami CD-Rom of the 21daishuu, but thanks for telling the PMJS list about it. I do have the Kadokawa Shinpen...CD-Rom. You might want to share this comment on the list; it's up to you:
Since the Kadokawa Shinpen kokka taikan CD-Rom was produced before Apple started marketing the Japanese Language Kit for Macintosh, it assumes that the user will have KanjiTalk, which is now obsolete. I had a difficult time getting the program to run on any Macintosh machine _and_ to print the results of searches until I patched together various fonts and upgraded to Mac OS 8 or above. Likewise, unless I am mistaken, the program only runs on the Japanese version of Windows, creating similar problems for users outside Japan who don't run that version. However, once you have it up and running it is a very powerful research tool. Many studies of style, diction, reference, allusion, and other aspects of canonical waka need to examine more poems than those that happen to have been selected for the 21daishuu, which means that for some of us who study waka the Iwanami CD-Rom simply doesn't include enough material; on the other hand, of course, for researchers focusing on aspects of the chokusenshuu individually, in comparison to one another, or as a group, what could be better? As you say, it's a lot of data for the money, and the search capacities will lend themselves to many different kinds of inquiry.
Minamoto no Tamenori, the author of Sanboe, is said to have carried around a sack full of scraps with lines from various poems written on them when he went to utaawase. Think what he (and many others) might have done with a laptop!
From: Hideyuki Morimoto
Date: 25 Nov., 1999
The following computer optical disc titles might also be of
some relevance
to PMJS.
Nihon daihyakka zensho (Computer file)
Nihon daihyakka zensho [computer file] ; +, Kokugo daijiten
: Supa Nipponika
= Multimedia encyclopedia, CD-ROM. -- Dai 1-han. Computer data
and
program. -- [Tokyo] : Shogakkan, [1998]
4 computer optical discs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Type of file: Interactive multimedia
System requirements: Pentium 133 MHz or above (166 MHz or above
recommended); Microsoft Japanese Windows95, Japanese Windows98,
or Japanese Windows NT 4.0 or later; 32 MB (48 MB recommended)
for Japanese Windows95 and Japanese
Windows 98, or 32 MB (64 MB recommended) for Japanese Windows
NT; 120 MB or more
available memory; 800 x 600 dpi or higher, and 65,000 or more
colours; 4X (8X recommended) or faster CD-ROM drive.
Documentation: Accompanied by: Otsukai ni naru mae ni (61 p.
: ill. ; 27 cm.); and, Watakushi ni totte denshi hyakka jiten
to wa (63 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.).
ISBN 4099067211
Zenbase CD. 1 [computer file]. Computer data and programs.
-- [Kyoto-shi] :
Hanazono Daigaku Kokusai Zengaku Kenkyujo, c1995.
1 computer optical disc ; 4 3/4 in.
Title on container: Zen besu CD. 1
Type of file: Text, computer programs, font
System requirements: any type of personal computer equipped with
CD-ROM drive.
Japanese, Chinese, and English.
Edited by: Urs App.
ISBN 493879618X
Good to hear from John Schmitt-Weigand about the "Light" version of Shogakukan's "Suupaa Nipponika dai hyakka jiten" CD-ROM. Unlike John I haven't taken the plunge yet, but I tracked down a little more information:
The expensive full version is in 4 CD-ROM, while the light
version is on just one, and is called "suupaa nipponika raito-ban"
スーパー・ニッポニカ ライト版
Its ISBN is 4-09-906723-8
Information on contents and technical requirements can be found
on
http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/sol/ssnle/index.html
together with a Shockwave demonstration--one of the demo pages
is its entry
for "setsuwa bungaku". Online ordering also possible.
Information about the Mac version of the full version can be
found in the following review:
http://mac.nikkeibp.co.jp/mac/product/9906/shogakukan.shtml
Last Friday I attended the annual "Computer Kokubungaku"
meeting at NIJL
(Kokubungaku kenkyu shiryokan).
http://www.nijl.ac.jp/symposium.html
Unlike past years, the resources were available here and now,
and not just some scholar's wishful thinking or a research group's
jealously guarded data. After a long drought it has finally begun
to pour.
The focus this time was on Genji monogatari. Not one but three CD-ROMs have come out this year, all commercially available. Two are even affordable. I heard talks about all three CD-ROMs and had some hands-on practice, but have not made up my mind which to purchase yet. Again, alas, all for Windows.
Pride of place to the Iwanami Genji CD-ROM, in the same series
as the 21daishu CD-ROM I mentioned earlier. The editing team was
headed by Nakamura Yasuo at the Shiryokan (www.nijl.ac.jp).
The base text (teihon) is an Edo edition--to avoid copyright problems--but
it will also be of great interest to those learning to read premodern
Japanese texts as windows display honkoku transcription
and the corresponding page of the Edo printed edition
(graphic file). [Added later:] It is based on the Shoo-oo
3 (承応版本) e-iri edition, i.e. it is an illustrated edition. The
Edo text was checked against the Taisei and ShinNKBT texts
More info. and orders from
http://www.iwanami.co.jp/.BOOKS/13/1/1300930.html
One feature I liked about this CD-ROM is that the excellent search engine can be used for other texts that the user "registers"--it is an open system in other words. I'll point you to information on the Web when I track it down. The price is around 12,000 yen.
The Iwanami/Nijl team are planning to produce one CD-ROM every
year in the "Koten Collection"--already scheduled are:
Azuma Kagami (2000)
Eiga monogatari and other rekishi monogatari (2001)
Kojiki, Hitachi fudoki (2002)
The second CD-ROM is produced by Benseisha (http://www.bensey.co.jp/)
and
allows KWIC concordance searches of the text--the Taisei text
is used (ed. Ikeda Kikan). There is no electronic text included,
however the fast search engine lists the target word in context,
giving Taisei vol/page/(line?) reference. For 9800 yen, a useful
tool. The information about this CD-ROM is not on their web site
but you can contact Benseisha either at 03-5215-9025 (fax 03-5215-9021)
or by e-mail LEG05067@niftyserve.or.jp.
And finally the one that is beyond most individuals' research
budgets (260,000 yen) "Kadokawa koten taikan Genji monogatari
CD-ROM" was produced by a team under the academic direction
of Professor Ii Haruki (Osaka University)--well known to many
on this list. It includes a transcription of the Ooshima text,
Yoomei-bunko text, Hohan text, and a Kawachi-bon text. Search
by part of speech, waka (including waka alluded to), geneological
tables...
> [ 著編者 ]
> 伊井春樹ほか 編
> [ 内容 ]
> 源氏物語の主要な本文（校訂本文・翻刻本文[大島本・陽明文庫本・保坂本・尾州家河
> 内本])を収録。語彙・分類・品詞別など8つの検索機能と和歌一覧などの資料を搭載さ
> せた研究者、図書館・博物館必備のアイテム。
http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/game-video/contents/199909/609.html
This CD-ROM is being marketed through Kinokuniya.
This page is disgracefully uninformative (url directory is
game-video??) but
this academic site gives more information:
http://www.koka.ac.jp:8080/ss4/taniguti96M/0/20/NDK/GenjiCD/GenjiCD.html
http://www.koka.ac.jp:8080/ss4/taniguti96M/0/20/NDK/GenjiCD/GenjiBunken/List
NDK.html
The latter is a bibliography of publications by Ii-sensei and
others about
how this CD-ROM and the underlying databases were developed
From: Joan Piggott
Date: 10 April, 1999
Some of you may be interested in using a database of Japanese journal articles concerning ancient and classical Japanese history (kodaishi). I have been using one such compiled by Prof. Masashi Oguchi for the last several years. Prof. Oguchi and his students are constantly updating the database, and I have found it very useful. I have located articles therein I would never have known about; I have found articles whose citations I have managed to lose; and one very useful feature is a kana reading of every author's name. "Kodaishi" includes the Gempei era in this database.
The database and its updates come in the form of a CD ROM. For use on my Mac, I have fed the data into a Filemaker Pro database that is easy to search. There are doubtless other ways of using it. After reading the description below, if you are interested in obtaining a copy of Prof. Oguchi's database, you can contact him directly at the email address below.
[Message in Japanese from Professor Oguchi, Hosei University]
前略
論文目録データベースについてのお問い合せ有難うございました。この目録は、弘前大学小口ゼミにおけるゼミ発表及び卒論執筆用に作成された、小口研究室架蔵古代史（一部荘園関係及び北方史等中世史関連文献を含む）関係文献目録を基礎とするものです。現在は、支援会員による経費の出資で維持されております。
その後、採録範囲を古代史研究全般にひろげ、さらに史学雑誌の史学文献目録をはじめとして、既成の各種分野別・雑誌別目録との照合を終了しました。それらの目録によって脱漏が発見された場合には、基本的には、原本に当りなおしてから当目録に入力しております。従いまして、当目録と既成の目録との間にずれがある場合には、当目録の方が正しい可能性が高いかとは思いますが、いずれにしろ人間による作業ですので、当目録にも誤りは多々あるかと思います。御利用の方には積極的に誤記の指摘をお願いしたいと思っております。現在では、インターネットの普及によって電子メールによる情報のやり取りが可能になりました。目録の誤記・脱漏についても、電子メールによる御指摘を随時受け付けております。
この目録は小口ゼミの院生を中心に多数の学生の協力をえました。三分の二以上は小口の入力ですが、残りはそれらの学生によるものです。一応小口が目を通しましたが、右記しました通りなお誤りが多いことも恐れておりますし、採録に偏りがあることも心配いたしております。国家機関による組織的な作業を必要とする規模のものを個人でやっておりますので、多々問題もあるかと思います。
ただこうした不完全な目録を公開したのは、既存の目録がすべて紙を媒体としたもので、検索・配列に無理があること、東大の佐藤信氏がその有用性を熱心に説いたこと、入力に関わる消耗品を補充していく費用がかさむことと、原本確認のための全国への旅費がかさむこと、多数の学生に何らかの報酬を支給していきたいからで、利益をあげるつもりはございません。そこで費用を回収するめどが立てば、その後の募集は考えていません。こうした趣旨を御理解の上、もし御出資頂ければ幸いです。
さてこの目録を利用するための環境ですが、目録の配布形態は、ＭＳ−ＤＯＳないしＭＡＣの汎用のテキストファイル形式です。したがってそれを各自御愛用のデータベースソフトに読み込めば、あとは自分自身のデータベースとなりますので、御自由にお使いください。ハードディスクにデータを入れるスペースさえあれば、機種・環境はいっさい問いません。テキストファイルですから、ワープロでも読み込めますが、規模が大きいので、やはりデータベースソフトでの御利用をお勧めいたします。推奨のソフトは、規模を考えますと、ＤＯＳなら桐Ｖ５、ＷＩＮＤＯＷＳなら桐Ｖ８ＳＰ４あたりでしょうか。当研究室では桐Ｖ８ＳＰ４で作業がなされております。
現在、バージョンアップを重ねましてＶ７となっております。収録件数は１０万件を越えました。作業領域も考えますとハードディスクに空き容量が２７ＭＢ近くは必要です。
もちろん、桐のデータは、ＭＳ−ＤＯＳのテキスト形式や、Ｋ３フォーマットで書き出すことが出来ますので、桐以外のデータベースソフトを御利用の方でも検索は可能です。ただ経験的には、スピードや使いやすさからいって桐の御使用を推薦致します。桐は日本語処理にかえてはさすがに一日の長があります。もちろんマイクロソフトのACCESSでも十分処理できます。MACですと、File
MakerProあたりでしょうか。
費用はＶ７からの参加ですと基本出資料金２５０００円（ＣＤＲ代、送料込み）です。従来は、入会後、およ年に一度程度で数千円でデータ更新をしてきました。今後は、支援会員の皆様には、随時、御希望の時にその時点での最新版をメディアや送料の実費３５００円で送付する体制にする予定です。
会員として御参加いただけます場合には、上記費用を添えて郵便振替にて、０２５８０−４−３７９８
小口雅史
まで御送金ください。その際、通信欄に、ＷＩＮ用かＭＡＣ用かを明記してください。また海外の方は郵便局の国際送金システムが便利かと思います。
なおこのデータベースについては、９７年２月末発売の、プレジデント３月号ないしボイスの４月号に紹介されております。機会がございましたら書店などでごらんください。
取り急ぎ要用のみにて失礼いたします。御高配いただければ幸いです。このデータベースは、毎日更新されています。そこで会員の皆様には、随時、お好きなときに、３５００円（送料・梱包料を含む）を送金いただければ、その時点での最新版をＣＤＲでお届けするシステムに、この４月からすることにしました。
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月 日
小口雅史(Masashi Oguchi)
oguchim@i.hosei.ac.jp
法政大学第一教養部
as of 2000/04/23
Editor's note: The fact that I have posted this archive should not imply the subject is closed. If there is further discussion, it will be appended. See general note on editing.