Shinpen Kokka taikan
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新編国歌大観
The Shinpen Kokka taikan is an indexed compilation of anthologies of early Japanese waka poetry.
Hardbound
There are ten volumes in two parts each, for a total of twenty large, heavy, hardbound books.
- Shinpen Kokka taikan. "Shinpen Kokka Taikan" Henshū Iinkai (hensha). Tōkyō: Kadokawa Shoten, 1983-1992. (Shōwa 58 - Heisei 4).
- 新編国歌大観. 「新編国歌大観」編集委員会(編者). 東京: 角川書店, 1983-1992. (昭和58 - 平成4).
- PL758 .S4955 1983
Description
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Shinpen kokka taikan. Kadokawa Shoten, 1983-1987. 10 volumes. (Revised edition of the Kokka taikan, 1951-1958). Call no.: PL 758 .S4955 1983. This work collects and indexes the entire corpus of classical poetry composed in waka form through the end of the medieval era. Each of the ten volumes is divided into two parts, the first collecting the texts of the poems and the second providing an index. The classification is as follows:
1) Chokusenshū (Imperial Collections), e.g. Kokinshū, Shinkokinshū
2) Shisenshū I (Collections edited privately without imperial sanction), e.g. Manyō shū, Kokin Rokujō
3) Shikashū I (Personal collections of individual authors)
4) Shikashū II and Teisūka I (more personal collections and sequences with fixed numbers of poems)
5) Uta'awase I, Kagakushū, Monogatari, Nikki, etc. (Poems composed for poetry contests, collections of exemplary poems, and poems occurring in the prose contexts of stories, diaries, etc.)
6) Shisenshū II (more privately edited collections as in no. 2 above as well as variant texts).
7) Shikashū III (more personal collections plus variant texts).
8) Shikashū IV
9) Shikashū V
10) Uta'awase II, Supplement
Unless one knows which collection (imperial, private, story, etc.) the poem is from, it is best to begin with the Chokusenshū volume and then work through the volumes in order. (For useful lists of collections, see The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, pp.341-348.) It is important to note that each poem is indexed five times under each of the five ku (lines of verse) that constitute a classical waka, which makes the index especially useful for tracing partial quotations or poetic allusions within single poems.
CD-ROM
The CD-ROM version, below, has a search function which makes it extremely easy to use. Here's a preview of what you get (1996 edition): http://www.jissen.ac.jp/library/cdserv3.htm
- Shinpen Kokka taikan. [electronic resource]. "Shinpen Kokka Taikan" Henshū Iinkai (kanshū). Tōkyō: Kadokawa Shoten, 2003.
- 新編国歌大観. [electronic resource]. 「新編国歌大観」編集委員会(監修). 東京: 角川書店, 2003.
- PL758 .S4955 2003 Computer File
- PL758 .S4955 2003 Computer File v.2 suppl.
One of the advantages of the CD-ROM is that you can perform searches for individual lexical items, as well as for entire lines. Another advantage is that searches can be performed on the entire corpus of poems simultaneously, so it is not necessary to pore through ten volumes of indexes.
System requirements
- CPU
- i 486DX66MHz or better (Pentium recommended)
- OS:
- 日本語Windows 98/Me
- 日本語Windows NT4.0 (Service Pack 3)
- 日本語Windows 2000
- 日本語Windows XP
In order to use English language Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, "Administrator" status is necessary.
- Memory
- 64 MB or better (128 MB or better recommended)
- Hard Disc
- 10 MB or better of unused space
In order to take advantage of the option to download the data files onto your hard drive, a capacity of 640 MB or better is required
- CD-ROM
- 2x speed (4x speed or better recommended)
- Display
- 800 x 600 resolution or better (1024 x 768 or better recommended)
- 256 color
Installation
- Boot up your computer.
- Close down any applications you might be using.
- Place the 新編国歌大観CD-ROM版Ver.2 CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
- Either the Microsoft Explorer window for the CD-ROM will appear automatically, or you may search for it under "My Computer". Open the "set up" folder and double click the [SETUP.EXE] file.
In order to read the prompts on the installation wizard, you will need to set your non-Unicode Program Languages default to "Japanese". It also may be necessary to completely set up your IME for Japanese input, so that [JP] Japanese appears among the items in the pop-up menu over the language icon on your taskbar. See Using Japanese language on your computer for details on how to change these settings.
- Follow the prompts on the installation wizard.
- There is an option to download the data files onto your hard drive. Choosing this option frees up your CD-ROM drive for other uses once you've started up the user interface program. Even with this option you must use the 新編国歌大観 CD-ROM 版 Ver.2 CD-ROM to start the user interface program, but once it is started and the menu screen has appeared you may remove the 新編国歌大観 CD-ROM 版 Ver.2 CD-ROM. The CD-ROM cannot be copied.
- Once you've finished the installation process on the wizard, have your computer reboot.
Starting the application
- Boot up your computer.
- Place the 新編国歌大観CD-ROM版Ver.2 CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
- Go to
- Start > Programs > 角川書店 > 新編国歌大観 Ver.2
- The main menu will appear.
