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Rearranging the figures on the tapestry: what Japanese direct translation of European texts can tell us about kanbun kundoku.

From the earliest stages of reading and writing in the Japanese archipelago, the methodology of kanbun kundoku (vernacular reading of literary Sinitic) has been an important means of engagement with Chinese texts. The kanbun kundoku process of glossing and syntactic rearrangement transforms a litera...

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Published in:Japan Forum Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 4 - 33
Main Author: Fraleigh, Matthew
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2019
Subjects:
Translating & interpreting
Translations
Language & languages
Japanese language
European languages
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