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The surviving manuscripts of the '']'', an 8th-century Japanese anthology of '']'', are broadly divided into three groups: the ''koten-bon'', the ''jiten-bon'', and the ''shinten-bon''.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=566}} The surviving manuscripts of the '']'', an 8th-century Japanese anthology of '']'', are broadly divided into three groups: the ''koten-bon'', the ''jiten-bon'', and the ''shinten-bon''.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=566}}


The ''koten'' (古点, "old glossing") refers to the readings of the ] (], ], ], ] and ]) from when they were commanded, in 951, to prepare readings of the ''Man'yōshū'' poems{{efn|The ''Man'yōshū'' was compiled before the birth of Japan's indigenous writing systems, ] and ],{{sfnm|1a1=Inaoka|1y=1983|1p=562}} and so its Japanese-language poems are written with a complex writing system using ] sometimes for their meanings and sometimes for their ] or ] pronunciations.{{sfnm|1a1=Inaoka|1y=1983|1pp=562–563}}}} during their compilation of the '']''.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1pp=566–567}} Of the 4,500-odd poems of the collection, they prepared readings for around 4,100,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} which included virtually all of the collection's '']'' (poems with a 5-7-5-7-7 metre) and roughly half of the '']'' (5-7-7-5-7-7), but hardly any of the '']'' (longer poems with an indefinite number of 5-7 verses and concluding 5-7-7).{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} The original ''koten'' manuscript no longer survives,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} but the ''shinten'' (新点, "new glossing") texts sometimes include colour-distinguished annotations, and in such texts the poems written in ink and without agreement are almost all poems that would have been included in the ''koten'' text (the "''koten'' poems", 古点歌),{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} so such texts are referred to ''koten'' texts, or ''koten-bon''.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}}<!-- It is not entirely clear what Hayashi is saying here. The exact quote in Japanese is "新点本中、訓を朱・青等に色分けした本で、墨で書かれてしかも合点のつかない歌はほぼ古点歌で、この段階の本を古点本という。" --> The ''koten'' (古点, "old glossing") refers to the readings of the ] (], ], ], ] and ]) from when they were commanded, in 951, to prepare readings of the ''Man'yōshū'' poems{{efn|The ''Man'yōshū'' was compiled before the birth of Japan's indigenous writing systems, ] and ],{{sfnm|1a1=Inaoka|1y=1983|1p=562}} and so its Japanese-language poems are written with a complex writing system using ] sometimes for their meanings and sometimes for their ] or ] pronunciations.{{sfnm|1a1=Inaoka|1y=1983|1pp=562–563}}}} during their compilation of the '']''.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1pp=566–567}} Of the 4,500-odd poems of the collection, they prepared readings for around 4,100,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} which included virtually all of the collection's '']'' (poems with a 5-7-5-7-7 metre) and roughly half of the '']'' (5-7-7-5-7-7), but hardly any of the '']'' (longer poems with an indefinite number of 5-7 verses and concluding 5-7-7).{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} The original ''koten'' manuscript no longer survives,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} but the ''shinten'' (新点, "new glossing") texts sometimes include colour-distinguished annotations, and in such texts the poems written in black<!-- ink? --> and without agreement are almost all poems that would have been included in the ''koten'' text (the "''koten'' poems", 古点歌),{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} so such texts are referred to ''koten'' texts, or ''koten-bon''.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}}<!-- It is not entirely clear what Hayashi is saying here. The exact quote in Japanese is "新点本中、訓を朱・青等に色分けした本で、墨で書かれてしかも合点のつかない歌はほぼ古点歌で、この段階の本を古点本という。" -->


''Jiten'' (次点, "following glossing") refers to glosses that were produced after the Five Men of the Pear Chamber but before ] in the 13th century.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} The names of several of these "middle" annotators are known to history:{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} in the notes to the ''koten'' text are ], "the Ōe family" (possibly ] or ]), ] and ];{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} from prefaces ] (惟宗孝言) and {{illm|Fujiwara no Nagatada|ja|藤原長忠}};{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and from commentaries (etc.) {{illm|Minamoto no Kunizane|ja|源国信}}, {{illm|Minamoto no Moroyori|ja|源師頼}}, ], {{illm|Kenshō|ja|顕昭}}, and so on.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} ''Jiten'' texts are those that contain different coloured readings and that have the ink overwritten in red where the two agree.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} Between 193 and 355 poems (the "''jiten'' poems", 次点歌) have such glosses,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and the texts of that level are the ''jiten'' texts, or ''jiten-bon''.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} They differ from the ''shinten'' texts in that they typically contain glosses written in hiragana on a separate line from the main text,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} although exceptions such as the '']'' and '']'' (古葉略類聚鈔) give readings in katakana beside the Chinese characters.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} No full manuscripts of all 20 books of the anthology survive from this period,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and information on the ''jiten'' readings is gleaned from quotations in poetic treatises (''{{illm|kagaku-sho|ja|歌学}}'') such as Kenshō's '']'' (袖中抄){{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and from ''Man'yōshū'' poems that were included in ] and ] collections.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} ''Jiten'' (次点, "following glossing") refers to glosses that were produced after the Five Men of the Pear Chamber but before ] in the 13th century.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} The names of several of these "middle" annotators are known to history:{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} in the notes to the ''koten'' text are ], "the Ōe family" (possibly ] or ]), ] and ];{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} from prefaces ] (惟宗孝言) and {{illm|Fujiwara no Nagatada|ja|藤原長忠}};{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and from commentaries (etc.) {{illm|Minamoto no Kunizane|ja|源国信}}, {{illm|Minamoto no Moroyori|ja|源師頼}}, ], {{illm|Kenshō|ja|顕昭}}, and so on.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} ''Jiten'' texts are those that contain different coloured readings and that have the black<!-- ink? --> overwritten in red where the two agree.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} Between 193 and 355 poems (the "''jiten'' poems", 次点歌) have such glosses,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and the texts of that level are the ''jiten'' texts, or ''jiten-bon''.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} They differ from the ''shinten'' texts in that they typically contain glosses written in hiragana on a separate line from the main text,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} although exceptions such as the '']'' and '']'' (古葉略類聚鈔) give readings in katakana beside the Chinese characters.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} No full manuscripts of all 20 books of the anthology survive from this period,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and information on the ''jiten'' readings is gleaned from quotations in poetic treatises (''{{illm|kagaku-sho|ja|歌学}}'') such as Kenshō's '']'' (袖中抄){{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and from ''Man'yōshū'' poems that were included in ] and ] collections.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}}


Around the middle of the ], the ] ] commanded the monk Sengaku to continue the work that had been begun by {{illm|Minamoto no Chikayuki|ja|源親行}},{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and the work that Sengaku produced not only included the main text with revised readings, but included readings for all the poems that had not been covered in the ''koten'' or ''jiten'' texts.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} These readings are called the ''Sengaku-shinten'' or ''shinten'' readings,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and the poems covered by them but not by early editions (between 96 and 152 in total) are the ''Sengaku-shinten'' poems or ''shinten'' poems (仙覚新点歌 or 新点歌).{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} Among the ''shinten'' texts that include colour-distinguished readings, the ones whose readings are given in red are the ''shinten'' poems, while those in black are the ''koten'' or ''jiten'' poems, and the readings in blue are Sengaku's revised readings therefor.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} Around the middle of the ], the ] ] commanded the monk Sengaku to continue the work that had been begun by {{illm|Minamoto no Chikayuki|ja|源親行}},{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and the work that Sengaku produced not only included the main text with revised readings, but included readings for all the poems that had not been covered in the ''koten'' or ''jiten'' texts.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} These readings are called the ''Sengaku-shinten'' or ''shinten'' readings,{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} and the poems covered by them but not by early editions (between 96 and 152 in total) are the ''Sengaku-shinten'' poems or ''shinten'' poems (仙覚新点歌 or 新点歌).{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}} Among the ''shinten'' texts that include colour-distinguished readings, the ones whose readings are given in red are the ''shinten'' poems, while those in black are the ''koten'' or ''jiten'' poems, and the readings in blue are Sengaku's revised readings therefor.{{sfnm|1a1=Hayashi|1y=1983|1p=567}}

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The surviving manuscripts of the Man'yōshū, an 8th-century Japanese anthology of waka, are broadly divided into three groups: the koten-bon, the jiten-bon, and the shinten-bon.

The koten (古点, "old glossing") refers to the readings of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber (Kiyohara no Motosuke, Ki no Tokibumi, Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, Minamoto no Shitagō and Sakanoue no Mochiki) from when they were commanded, in 951, to prepare readings of the Man'yōshū poems during their compilation of the Gosen Wakashū. Of the 4,500-odd poems of the collection, they prepared readings for around 4,100, which included virtually all of the collection's tanka (poems with a 5-7-5-7-7 metre) and roughly half of the sedōka (5-7-7-5-7-7), but hardly any of the chōka (longer poems with an indefinite number of 5-7 verses and concluding 5-7-7). The original koten manuscript no longer survives, but the shinten (新点, "new glossing") texts sometimes include colour-distinguished annotations, and in such texts the poems written in black and without agreement are almost all poems that would have been included in the koten text (the "koten poems", 古点歌), so such texts are referred to koten texts, or koten-bon.

Jiten (次点, "following glossing") refers to glosses that were produced after the Five Men of the Pear Chamber but before Sengaku in the 13th century. The names of several of these "middle" annotators are known to history: in the notes to the koten text are Fujiwara no Michinaga, "the Ōe family" (possibly Ōe no Sukekuni or Ōe no Masafusa), Fujiwara no Atsutaka and Fujiwara no Kiyosuke; from prefaces Koremune no Takatoki (惟宗孝言) and Fujiwara no Nagatada [ja]; and from commentaries (etc.) Minamoto no Kunizane [ja], Minamoto no Moroyori [ja], Fujiwara no Mototoshi, Kenshō, and so on. Jiten texts are those that contain different coloured readings and that have the black overwritten in red where the two agree. Between 193 and 355 poems (the "jiten poems", 次点歌) have such glosses, and the texts of that level are the jiten texts, or jiten-bon. They differ from the shinten texts in that they typically contain glosses written in hiragana on a separate line from the main text, although exceptions such as the Kasuga-bon and Koyō Ryaku Ruijū-shō (古葉略類聚鈔) give readings in katakana beside the Chinese characters. No full manuscripts of all 20 books of the anthology survive from this period, and information on the jiten readings is gleaned from quotations in poetic treatises (kagaku-sho [ja]) such as Kenshō's Shūchū-shō (袖中抄) and from Man'yōshū poems that were included in imperial and personal collections.

Around the middle of the Kamakura period, the shogun Kujō Yoritsune commanded the monk Sengaku to continue the work that had been begun by Minamoto no Chikayuki [ja], and the work that Sengaku produced not only included the main text with revised readings, but included readings for all the poems that had not been covered in the koten or jiten texts. These readings are called the Sengaku-shinten or shinten readings, and the poems covered by them but not by early editions (between 96 and 152 in total) are the Sengaku-shinten poems or shinten poems (仙覚新点歌 or 新点歌). Among the shinten texts that include colour-distinguished readings, the ones whose readings are given in red are the shinten poems, while those in black are the koten or jiten poems, and the readings in blue are Sengaku's revised readings therefor.

Notes

  1. The Man'yōshū was compiled before the birth of Japan's indigenous writing systems, hiragana and katakana, and so its Japanese-language poems are written with a complex writing system using Chinese characters sometimes for their meanings and sometimes for their indigenous Japanese or sino-Japanese pronunciations.

References

Citations

  1. Hayashi 1983, p. 566.
  2. Inaoka 1983, p. 562.
  3. Inaoka 1983, pp. 562–563.
  4. Hayashi 1983, pp. 566–567.
  5. ^ Hayashi 1983, p. 567.

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