ILCAA Joint Research Project

Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (2)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2020–March, 2023

Asia is a globally unique area wherein a variety of writing systems have been established and used since ancient times. Studies on Asian scripts contribute to the general study of language scripts. Therefore, this project plans to cover popular scripts such as Chinese and Indic, minor scripts such as Tangu, and ancient scripts that include cuneiforms and hieroglyphs. The project members have all conducted multifaceted script studies, especially on shapes of the glyphs, and have a comprehensive understanding of principles of scripts. This project aims to not only describe and explain individual scripts but also to make materials available for more general studies, such as a glossary on studies of scripts. Therefore, this project seeks to be a successor to the GICAS (Grammatological Informatics based on the Corpora of Asian Scripts) project (2001–2004, at The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)).

Members

Coordinator

• Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Hideo SAWADA

Joint Researchers

• Kazue IWASA
• Naomichi KUROSAWA
• Kazuhiko MACHIDA
• Wakaha MORI
• Masakatsu NAGAI
• Atsushi OCHIAI
• Kazuhiro OKADA
• Kenji OKANO
• Masami OTAKE
• Hiroyuki SASAHARA
• Masaaki SHIMIZU
• Masayuki YOSHIKAWA

Outputs

Meetings

The 9th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 26 Nov 2022 10:00–15:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 10:00–12:00 All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (1)

  13:00–15:00 All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (2)

  Chair: Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

The 8th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 2 Oct 2022 10:00–15:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 10:00– All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (1)

  13:00– All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (2)

The 7th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 30 Jul 2022 13:00–17:00, Sun 31 Jul 2022 10:00–15:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• 30 Jul

• 13:00– All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (1)

  15:00– Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

  “Re-analysis on the pair of Tangut scripts whose shapes are same but syllables are different”

• 31 Jul

• 10:00– Atsushi OCHIAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University)

  Grapheme in Kanji

  13:00– All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (2)

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 17 Oct 2021 10:00–16:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 10:00–11:00 Atsushi OCHIAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University)

  “About xingsheng (形声) and related concepts in hanzi (漢字)”

  11:00–12:00 Atsushi OCHIAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University)

  “About the concept of “xingfu (形符)” in hanzi (漢字)”

  13:00–16:00 All participants

  Discussion on the Exhibition to be held in November

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 28 Aug 2021 10:00–16:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 10:00–12:00 Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

  “Once again, on the “Dot” in Tangut script”

  13:00–16:00 All participants

  “Discussion on the Exhibition to be held in November”

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 23 May 2021 10:00–16:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 10:00–12:00 All participants

  “Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (1)”

  13:00–16:00 All participants

  “Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (2)”

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 20 Feb 2021 14:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• Hiroyuki SASAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University)

  “Changes in form, reading, meaning and register of usage among sinoform characters borrowed into other cultures”

  15:30–17:00 All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 14 Nov 2020 13:30–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00–14:00 Atsushi OCHIAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University)

  “About "multiple syllable onset" theory of old Chinese and construction of Kanji”

  14:30–15:30 Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA)

  “Problems on phonetic value in Southeast Asian Indic scripts”

  16:00–17:00 Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

  “On the total number of Tangut scripts”

  17:00–17:30 All participants

  Discussion

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 4 Jul 2020 13:30–17:00, Sun 5 Jul 2020 8:30–15:00
• Venue: ILCAA Multimedia Conference Room (304)
• 4 Jul

• 13:30– Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

  “On the joint-research project”

  14:00– Kazue IWASA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)

  “Current studies on the Yi script and manuscripts (2020)”

  15:30– Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

  “Re-analysis of the Tangut radicals which have ‘five’ strokes”

• 5 Jul

• 8:30– All participants

  Scheduling and discussion for 2020 year

  10:00– All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (1)

  13:00– All participants

  Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (2)

Related events

Online Workshop “Reconsidering terminology for the study of Asian scripts”

[open]

• Date/Time: Sat 5 Mar 2022 14:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (2)”, Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Scripts (GICAS), Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Construction of Method of Studies on Scripts in Asia” (Principal Investigator: Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 19K21628)

• 1. Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

  “On the Project ‘Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts 2’”

  2. Masakatsu NAGAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  “Terminology for the study of Ancient Egyptian script”

  3. Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA)

  “Reconsidering phonogramic units of Burmese script”

  4. Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

  “Terminology for the study of Tangut script”

Workshop on line: Recent Studies of the Khitan Scripts and Documents (2021)

[open]

• Date/Time: Tue 23 Feb 2021 14:00–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (2)”, Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Scripts (GICAS)

• 1. Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

  “On the Project ‘Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts 2’”

  2. Masami OTAKE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Recent Studies of the Khitan Script and their Documents (Japan)”

  3. WU Yingzhe (Inner Mongolia University)

  “Recent Studies of the Khitan Script and their Documents (China)”

Workshop “Special talk on the fieldworks of KANJI and others”

[open]

• Date/Time: Wed 29 Jul 2020 19:00–20:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (2)”, Editorial department of FIELDPLUS

• Speakers: Naomichi KUROSAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kokugakuin University), Atsushi OCHIAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University), Kazuhiro OKADA(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hakkai-Gakuen University), Hiroyuki SASAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University), Masaaki SHIMIZU (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University), Masayuki YOSHIKAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  Chairman: Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

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