Kambun to Higashiajia Kundoku No Bunka Ken (Iwanami Shinsho Shinaka Ban 1262)

[Machine Translation] The reading of Chinese texts in Japanese has traditionally been thought to be uniquely Japanese, but in recent years it has become clear that a similar phenomenon existed in the languages of ethnic groups around China, such as the Korean, Uyghur, and Khitan peoples, as well as in the Chinese language itself. This paper proposes the concept of a cultural sphere of Chinese literature, stating that understanding the history of kun-yomi, which was inspired by the process of translating Buddhist scriptures into Chinese, is necessary for understanding the culture of East Asia.

漢文の訓読は従来、日本独自のものと思われてきたが、近年、朝鮮、ウイグル、契丹など中国周辺の民族の言語や中国語自体の中にも同様の現象があったことが明らかになってきた。仏典の漢訳の過程にヒントを得て生まれた訓読の歴史を知ることが東アジアの文化理解に必要であることを述べ、漢文文化圏という概念を提唱する。