• Kanbun (漢文 'Han writing') is a system for writing Literary Chinese used in Japan from the Nara period until the 20th century. Much of Japanese literature...
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    Kanbun Uechi (上地完文, Uechi Kanbun, May 5, 1877 – November 25, 1948) was the founder of Uechi-Ryū, one of the primary karate styles of Okinawa. Kanbun was...
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    Kanbun (寛文) was a Japanese era (年号, nengō, "year name") after Manji and before Enpō. This period spanned the years from April 1661 to September 1673. The...
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    half-soft", the style was renamed Uechi-Ryū after the founder of the style, Kanbun Uechi, an Okinawan who went to Fuzhou in Fujian Province, China to study...
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  • Kanbun is a Unicode block containing annotation characters used in Japanese copies (kanbun) of Classical Chinese texts, to indicate reading order. Its...
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    The Kanbun Master (Japanese: 寛文大師; fl. c. 1660–1673) was a Japanese woodblock print artist and mentor to Hishikawa Moronobu, who is generally considered...
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    follows:[citation needed] Original Kanbun text: 于時、初春令月、氣淑風和、梅披鏡前之粉、蘭薫珮後之香。 Classical Japanese translation (kanbun kundoku): 時に、初春の令月にして、気淑く風和ぎ、梅は鏡前の粉を披き、蘭は珮後の香を薫す。...
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    Ateji (section Kanbun)
    cannot be determined. There are occasional spellings which derive from kanbun (Japanese form of literary Chinese), where the kanji form follows literary...
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    1667 (Kanbun 7): After fire destroyed the main temple structure, work on rebuilding Nigatsu-dō (二月堂) at Nara commenced. 13 February 1668 (Kanbun 8, 1st...
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    Kanbun[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F U+319x ㆐ ㆑ ㆒ ㆓ ㆔ ㆕ ㆖ ㆗ ㆘ ㆙ ㆚ ㆛ ㆜ ㆝ ㆞ ㆟ Notes 1.^ As of Unicode...
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    although some of these were likely intended to be read as Japanese using the kanbun method, and show influences of Japanese grammar such as Japanese word order...
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    private (see Zainichi Korean). There is also a notable history of use of Kanbun (Classical Chinese) as a language of literature and diplomacy in Japan,...
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    sometime before 712, was written in kanbun. Even today Japanese high schools and some junior high schools teach kanbun as part of the curriculum. No full-fledged...
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    reading "内平外成" (Kanbun: 内平かに外成る, Uchi tairaka ni soto naru, "flat inside and outside"). In the Book of Documents, the sentence "地平天成" (Kanbun: 地平かに天成る, Chi...
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  • (Kanbun) stone inscriptions, but a stone epitaph was written with kana. In the 16th century, a new style of stone inscriptions emerged, with Kanbun on...
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    Arakaki Seishō Higaonna Kanryō Miyagi Chōjun Kyoda Jūhatsu Mabuni Kenwa Uechi Kanbun Important kata: Sanchin Saifā Seiunchin Shisochin Seipai Seisan Sanseru...
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    Kanbun-notated text 〈風俗說云二握飯筑波之國一。〉 Old Japanese 〈握飯(にぎりいひ) 筑波の国(つくはのくに)、風俗(くにぶり)の説(ことば)に云(い)ふ。〉 Nigiri-ihi Tsukuba no kuni, kuniburi no kotoba-ni ifu...
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  • reform kyūjitai Homographs and readings Literary and colloquial readings Kanbun Idu Variants Zetian characters Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana...
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    as kanji. Beginning in the Nara period (710–794), readers and writers of kanbun—the Japanese term for Literary Chinese writing—began employing a system...
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    23 May 2014. Fujimoto, Keisuke (2017). The Untold Story of Kanbun Uechi. pp. 19. "Kanbun Uechi history". 1 March 2009. Archived from the original on...
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  • reform kyūjitai Homographs and readings Literary and colloquial readings Kanbun Idu Variants Zetian characters Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana...
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    The 1662 Kanbun earthquake (Japanese: 寛文地震) affected Japan on June 16, 1662. The magnitude was M7.6. Strong shaking were felt over a wide area, mainly...
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    system for reading Classical Chinese is still used in Japan and is known as kanbun kundoku. Gugyeol is derived from the cursive and simplified style of Chinese...
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    (Kanbun 2, 1st day of the 2nd month): There was a violent earthquake in Kyoto which destroyed the tomb of the Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. 1662 (Kanbun 2):...
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    1973 Playgirl magazine began publication and the novel series Zenshaku Kanbun Taikei spawning a huge 33 volumes. In 1974 Weekly Shōnen Jump launched Akamaru...
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    literature", also pronounced as Hanwen in Standard Chinese, Hanmun in Korean, and Kanbun in Japanese. Meaning Classical Chinese. Chữ Nho (𡨸儒, "words of Confucians")...
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    a prestigious way of "encoding" Akkadian via Sumerograms (cf. Japanese kanbun). Nonetheless, the study of Sumerian and copying of Sumerian texts remained...
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  • declaring the kyō-masu the official nationwide measure standard in 1669 (Kanbun 9). When the 1891 Japanese Weights and Measures Act [ja] was promulgated...
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    follows his lord into death. 1663 (Kanbun 3). The shogunate banned suicides due to fidelity (junshi). 1669 (Kanbun 9). An Ainu rebellion broke out in...
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  • The Georgian block contains one superscripted Mkhedruli letter: ჼ. The Kanbun block has superscripted annotation characters used in Japanese copies of...
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