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（説明にあたっては、敬称を略させていただきました。ご了承ください。）--] (]) 18:33, 3 February 2014 (UTC) （説明にあたっては、敬称を略させていただきました。ご了承ください。）--] (]) 18:33, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
:渡部氏は初めて憶良が渡来人だったのではないかと述べた学者。中西氏はその後にこの説を強調するようになりました。(Keene, 1999, chapter 3 note 9)新撰姓氏録による憶良皇別説を載せる百科事典がほとんどないのに対して、渡来人説を強調する百科事典が多い。これは、なぜでしょうね… ] (]) 23:46, 3 February 2014 (UTC) :渡部氏は初めて憶良が渡来人だったのではないかと述べた学者。中西氏はその後にこの説を強調するようになりました。(Keene, 1999, chapter 3 note 9)新撰姓氏録による憶良皇別説を載せる百科事典がほとんどないのに対して、渡来人説を強調する百科事典が多い。これは、なぜでしょうね… ] (]) 23:46, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
::新撰姓氏録は山上氏の出自について直接的に記述した唯一の一次史料ですから、まともな学者ならこれを外して議論を進める事はあり得ません。新撰姓氏録が山上氏を大春日朝臣と同族で天足彦国忍人命の後裔だとしているのは、まともな学者なら誰でも認める事実であって、たとえ渡来人説を唱える場合であっても、何を措いてもまず最初に記すべき事柄と言えます。
::ウィキペディアでも、まず最初に新撰姓氏録の記述に言及すべきであり、渡来人説や反論については、その後で記載すべきだと思います。--] (]) 16:12, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


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Circulation of Japan Spotlight (Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry)?

Does anyone know how to find the circulation of the Japan Spotlight (Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry)? It might be useful for that article.

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 14:45, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Ryūkyū TaskForce Request

Hello, At the urging of Kwamikagami and Ryulong, I've decided to come to WikiProject Japan. I noticed that there were many poor/missing articles about the Ryūkyū Islands and the Ryūkyū Kingdom, so I created WikiProject Ryūkyū. Although I object to it, I was told that my WikiProject would be more efficient and have better support if I converted it into a WP Japan TaskForce. So I'm here, asking for your help. Much obliged in advance. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 03:27, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I'd like to add that many existing Ryūkyūan articles are stubs full of red links, and it'd be nice if anyone would help me take care of them. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 15:26, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK Kanako Momota

Moscow Connection nominated Kanako Momota at Did You Know and has been asked to make numerous changes to the article. Japanese is not this editor's language, and the sources are in Japanese. Can anyone here help on that template? — Maile (talk) 22:34, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I have come in possession of a Japanese source that can be used in expanding the article to meet the DYK requirements. I can send it by email to anyone who is willing to help. But keep in mind that it is a scan. --Moscow Connection (talk) 10:03, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Many pages nominated for deletion

There are many pages listed for deletion which have been tagged with this project banner. See: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Japan/Article alerts. Just wondering if any members here are actively involved? XOttawahitech (talk) 15:51, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Yamanoue no Okura

This page desperately needs more eyes. One user with a clear political agenda and no interest in discussing disputes with other editors has been threatening to drastically change the article even though all reliable sources and every other Wikipedian has disagreed. User:Cckerberos posted once, but otherwise I have been trying to protect the page alone, something not easy when I can't edit from my computer and therefore can't log in. 182.249.240.5 (talk) 02:58, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

  • こんにちは！ I've reviewed the article in question and tried to take in the entire discussion. The disruptive editor seems to have had past trouble with vandalism and edit warring outside of the article in question, but he made some good contributions to the article. I noticed your last comment about how he had added information only up to 1981; it'd be best for you to just add on the needed information yourself. I would also advise that you add a section to the article that states both sides of this argument on the man's foreigness as supported or rebuffed by sources (since it is a stub). If the user continues to make reverts without discussion beforehand, then you should report him to an administrator. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 05:36, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
But what about WP:WEIGHT? Juzumaru has to date been unable to name a single scholar in the field of classical Japanese literature who has argued that Okura was not born in Baekje. I have already named two specialist sources that specifically state this to be a view held by scholars outside the relevant field (歴史学者 as oppoed to 文学研究者). And I already summarized the debate as discussed in a huge number of reference works, only to be completely ignored by Juzumaru. 182.249.240.8 (talk) 07:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Again, if the debate is significant enough, use it to expand the article. Also, are you looking for mediation with Juzumaru, or help adding to the article? I would be more useful with the former than the latter. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 07:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
I described the additional description. (I do not comment on the description that an IP address input about Juzumaru. I only describes Yamanoue no Okura.）(トークページに私の説明を追加しました。)--Juzumaru (talk) 19:36, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but I don't fully understand what you mean. Use (preferably) proper English or Japanese. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 19:46, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Juzumaruさん、ここ日本語良いよ。色々ヤツら日本語出来る、安心しろ。君の英語ちょっと理解し難い。 --benlisquareT•C•E 16:28, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

I think this is all about Misplaced Pages:WEIGHT, as 182.249.240.8 points out.

  • Shinsen Shōjiroku, an official genealogical record compiled by the order of Emperor Saga some 80 years after Okura's death, registered Yamanoue clan as branched out of the Japanese Imperial family. This is a fact that all scholars agree.
  • Nakanishi and some other scholars argue that Okura is likely to have come from Baekje, based on various circumstantial evidence, but no contemporary records directly supporting the claim. This theory is popular, but a theory, after all, or a speculation, disputed by other scholars.

And here is an issue of how we give due weight to these pieces of information. I doubt that the current version of the article is satisfactory in this regard. --Dwy (talk) 16:00, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

It is not a "fact" that accepted by all scholars that Okura was a descendant of the divinity Amatarashi...-no-mikoto just because a source produced decades after his death said the "山上 clan" (not mentioning "山於憶良") were. This is also just one theory, and it certainly appears to be a theory with significantly less acceptance among scholars in the relevant field (日本上代文学, 万葉学) Did you even read the talk page? Virtually no encyclopedias support the claim that you are making, while the majority give the Nakanishi toraijin theory. This is consistent with the fact that every single scholar specializing in the field who has been mentioned in the discussion supports the theory. 182.249.240.37 (talk) 03:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Okura being a descendant of the Divinity is NOT a fact. A contemporary official record having registered his clan as a branch of the Japanese Imperial family IS.
  • To your comment in the edit summary alleging that Okura "lived before any extant documents were written": Why do you think we have his article in the first place? Because what he wrote was extensively recorded in Manyoshu, still there for us to enjoy. The oldest extant chronicles in Japan, Kojiki and Nihon Shoki were completed during his lifetime while his own court career was recorded in the next one, Shoku Nihongi. --Dwy (talk) 11:10, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Virtually all scholars consider him to have been born around 660, 52 years before the Kojiki. His poems give no biographical information about his early life. We have in fact no hard evidence about his early life. All we have are modern scholars speculating. We have a couple of historians outside the field mentioning the Shinsen Shojiroku as evidence, but the majority of scholars inside the field rejecting this because we have no evidence whatsoever that the 山上 clan was the clan 山於憶良 was born into. Maybe he married into it? It doesn't matter if there's no precedent for that, because there's also no precedent for someone born in Asuka Japan with a name like 憶良. In fact, there also appears to be evidence that immigrants from the Korean peninsula did have names like this in the same ancient primary source that you are claiming we should base our article's POV on. Maybe you should go over our guidelines again. Perhaps actually edit some articles while you're at it: your almost non-existent edit history implies you, like Juzumaru, are primarily interested in modern day political disputes between Japan and South Korea. I actually agree with you on these political issues. Just as I already told Juzumaru I agree with him on the politics. This is a fact born out by my edit history. But this is an article about an early Japanese poet. An early Japanese poet who most scholars of ancient Japanese poetry (almost all of whom are Japanese, I might add) consider to have likely been of Kudaran (not South Korean as Koryosaram claimed, and Juzumaru seems to think I am claiming -- he's accused me of being Koryosaram more than once) descent.
By the way, the article "Korean influence on Japanese culture" needs more attention. If I could log in I'd delete the section "Literature" section -- we shouldn't be saying Okura "was born in Korean Baekje" --it's a probability judgement, but even if he was born in Baekje this can't possibly be considered a Korean influence on Japanese literature. A better example would be some of the actual Korean citizens who write novels in Japanese.
182.249.240.37 (talk) 13:07, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
By the way, a work compiled 80 years after a person died and 150 years after his birth is not "contemporary" by any stretch of the imagination, even if it mentioned 山上憶良/山於憶良 by name. I'm not an expert on the Ss, though: could someone tell me when our oldest surviving copy of it dates to? Of course, we should not be writing the article based on speculations like this, whether they come from Juzumaru or Dwy or me. This is why we don't use primary sources except in special cases; we use reliable secondary sources where possible, and we work out how we should weigh the article's point of view according to well-balanced tertiary sources. 182.249.240.4 (talk) 13:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

日本語による解説

こんにちは。 benlisquareさん。ありがとう。私は日本語で説明します。
（私は冷静な議論を望んでいます。そのため、山上憶良に関係のない話（個人攻撃）はしません。また、山上憶良と関係のない質問には返信しない場合があります。ご了承ください。）

憶良帰化人説

1965年ごろ、日本の古典文学研究者の中西進は『奈良時代の詩人の山上憶良は移民（帰化人）』という仮説を発表しました。 (同じ時期、渡部和雄という学者が、同様の発表をしました。)

この仮説は、次の状況証拠によって構成されます。

1. 憶良（オクラ）は、日本の名前より外国人の名前に近い。
2. 憶良は中国文化にとても詳しかった。

また、中西は、日本書紀に記録されている百済人の医者『億仁』が憶良の父親だと主張しています。

Juzumaruの引用文献

  • 「相剋と迷妄--山上憶良をめぐって」中西 進　（1965年10月）
  • 「憶良の前半生 (万葉集の謎(特集))」渡部 和雄 （1969年2月）
  • 「憶良帰化人論」中西 進（1969年11月）

憶良帰化人説の問題点

1972年、日本の古代史研究家の青木和夫は『山上憶良は移民（帰化人）』仮説の問題点を以下のように指摘しました。

1.山上憶良は「臣」の称号を与えられている。「臣」の称号を与えられた帰化人はいない。
2.山上憶良の一族は「朝臣」の称号を与えられている。「朝臣」の称号を与えられた帰化人の一族はいない。
3.億仁が山上一族であるという記録がない。（そもそも、億仁の家族についての記録がない。）

1981年、日本の古典文学研究者の比護隆界は、「百済人の医者『億仁』が憶良の父親」という仮説の問題点を以下のように指摘しました。

1.朝鮮系の帰化人は、父の名前を子供に使用しない。
2.朝鮮系の帰化人は、父の仕事を世襲するが、憶良は父の仕事（医者）を世襲していない。
3.億仁は高級の官位「勤大壱」の官位を与えられた。憶良が億仁の子供であるなら、当時の階級制度（蔭位）によって、憶良は自動的に官位が授与される。しかし、憶良は官位を授与されていない。

Juzumaruの引用文献

  • 「万葉集研究 第2集 - 憶良帰化人説批判」青木和夫 （1973年）
  • 「山上臣憶良の出自・補続--憶良帰化人論をめぐって」比護 隆界（1981年10月）

現在

現在、青木と比護の指摘に反論できる証拠は発表されていません。そのため、日本では『憶良は帰化人』の仮説は学者たちの支持を得ていません。
（182.249.240.xxxさんも日本人の論文は渡部和雄という学者が1969年に書いた論文しか提示していません。）

しかし、中西は『憶良は帰化人』の仮説を撤回していません。

そのため、私は Steven D. Carter Department of Asian Languages Stanford University の説明が最適だと考えています。

"One of the most distinguished members of Otomo no Tabito's Kyushu salon was a scholar named Yamanoue no Okura. Some scholars contend that he was born on the continent to a scholarly father who emigrated to Japan and eventually became physician to several Japanese emperors. Whatever the case, Okura was raised in Japan, although with a Chinese- style education in the classics and, of course, in poetry. " ("Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology" by Steven D. Carter Stanford University Press, Stanford, 199 - page44 )

　--Juzumaru (talk) 18:33, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

182.249.240.xxxさんへ①

新撰姓氏録の「"山上朝臣の条にはその氏が大春日朝臣と同祖...(The Yamanoue clan was a tributary of the Kasuga clan...)"」を削除する理由について、182.249.240.xxxさんは以下のように主張しました。

Because that's not a fact. It's an opinion/fringe theory of one scholar, Mori, who almost never publishes in this field. It is oppsed by the only other source any of us have found that mentions it (Vovin), and is based on what is almost certainly a misreading of a later source (憶良 is not mentioned anywhere in the Shinsen, and names beginning with 憶 are only mentioned in association with immigrants from the Korean peninsula). 182.249.240.21 (talk) 11:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

非常に誤解が多いので、説明させていただきます。

まず、新撰姓氏録について説明します。 新撰姓氏録は815年に編纂された古代日本の氏族の系譜書です。この歴史書は日本歴史の学者の佐伯有清によって解説されています。（佐伯による新撰姓氏録の研究結果は1984年に日本で最も権威のある日本学士院賞 を受賞しています ）。 "山上朝臣の条にはその氏が大春日朝臣と同祖..."は佐伯の解説書に書かれている説明です。

次に、新撰姓氏録は3つの種類に分類されています。

1. 皇別：天皇・皇子から分かれて臣下になった氏族。
2. 神別：日本の神々の子孫と伝承されている氏族。
3. 諸蕃：渡来人の子孫の氏族。

182.249.240.xxxさんは『憶良 is not mentioned anywhere in the Shinsen』と書きました。新撰姓氏録は個人の名簿ではありません。氏族の名簿です。そのため、『憶良』の名前は書かれていません。憶良が所属する『山上』氏は皇別（天皇・皇子から分かれて臣下になった氏族）に記録されています。

また、182.249.240.xxxさんが書いた『names beginning with 憶 are only mentioned in association with immigrants from the Korean peninsula』は、諸蕃（渡来人の子孫）に書かれている「石野連」一族の解説（出自百済国人近速王孫憶頼福留也）と「後部薬使主」一族の解説（出自高麗国人大兄憶徳也）です。両方とも山上憶良には関係ありません。--Juzumaru (talk) 18:33, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

憶良が所属する『山上』氏は皇別（天皇・皇子か ら分かれて臣下になった氏族）に記録されていま す。憶良の姓は臣（八色の姓の第六位）。『新撰 姓氏録』に記されている「山上氏」の姓は朝臣（八 色の姓の第二位）。山上氏は「山上憶良」の「山 上」に似ているからといって、「山於憶良」の「山 於」には似ていません。Juzumaruさんと同じように 解読している学者もいるようですが、違う読み方を している学者の方が多いようです。両方とも山上憶良には関係ありません。だから一次資料を使うのはやめましょう？私の解き方は歴史学的にありえますが、ウィキペディアはウィキペディアの投稿者による一次資料の解読ではなくて、信頼性のある二次資料を基にしているのです。JuzumaruさんとDwyさんが「古い文献にかいてあるから記事に入れなければ」という考え方をやめてくれないと百科事典の作成には参加できなくなります。"山上朝臣の条にはその氏が大春日朝臣と同祖..."は佐伯の解説書に書かれている説明です。これは初耳です。Juzumaruさんは最初に信頼性のある二次資料を記事から消して新撰姓氏録という一次資料だけ述べたので、それから17ヶ月いきなり言われても…。その上、佐伯氏は憶良と何の関係もない理由で学院賞を受賞したんですよね？中西進は佐伯氏より13年前に同じ賞を「万葉集の比較文学的研究、万葉史の研究」で受賞しました。文化勲章も受章しているし、それに、奈良県立万葉文化館の名誉館長です。これは、日本最高の万葉学者のひとりだからです。学者は十人十色なの、資格を比較して意味がなく、二次資料だけで記事の適切な重点は決められないと考えられます。なので、ほかの百科事典がどのような中立性な観点になっているかを見てみようと思いました。origin theoryの何かを述べる９冊の百科事典の100%が憶良渡来人説を述べています。そのうち、新撰姓氏録による皇別説も述べているのが（多くとも）66.7%。（「新撰姓氏録」の名前が書いてあったのは20%に過ぎないけど。）渡来人説も皇別説も載せた６冊のうち、どちらも平等に述べているのが３冊で、皇別説の方が強いように述べているのが３冊です。後者の３冊のうち２冊は『新撰姓氏録』によらず、姓が「臣」だったから渡来人説が成立しがたいと。この６冊のほかに、渡来人説だけ述べている百科事典が３冊あり、「彼は百済に生まれた」と直接いうのが１冊で、もう２冊は「百済の渡来人とする説もあるが確かではない」とか「百済からの渡来人憶仁の子か」。これらは、一般人向けの百科事典です。ほかに、この分野を研究している人のための『日本古典文学大辞典』と『日本古典文学研究史大事典』があります。前者は記事の中で、「姓は臣。家系未詳。『新撰姓氏録』右京皇別に山上氏は粟田朝臣と同祖と伝え、帰化人とする説もある」とありますが、付記ではいろんな問題を解明する仮説として提唱されたが、史家からの反論もあり、なお問題を残している、ということが書いてあります。後者では歴史学者が1970,1980代に反論していたが、今論争が静まった、ということが書いてあります。これらは、現在の英語版ウィキペディアでもの記事と内容的にはあまり異なっていませんが、Juzumaruさんが望んでいる記事の形はどうかな…「山上氏は春日氏の一流だった。それだけ。」これは、中立性の観点なのでしょうか？Juzumaruさんは、結局、記事をどういうふうに変えたいんですか？今でもこのような記事にしたいんですか？ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.249.240.17 (talk) 16:53, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

182.249.240.xxxさんへ②

現在、182.249.240.xxxさんが提示された学者について検証をしています。

I named Watanabe, Nakanishi, Keene, Miller, Levy, Vovin. That's six! 182.249.240.33 (talk) 11:20, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

私は渡部和雄についての活動記録を見つけられませんでした。彼は、どのような実績を持つ学者なのでしょうか。教えてください。

（説明にあたっては、敬称を略させていただきました。ご了承ください。）--Juzumaru (talk) 18:33, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

渡部氏は初めて憶良が渡来人だったのではないかと述べた学者。中西氏はその後にこの説を強調するようになりました。(Keene, 1999, chapter 3 note 9)新撰姓氏録による憶良皇別説を載せる百科事典がほとんどないのに対して、渡来人説を強調する百科事典が多い。これは、なぜでしょうね… 182.249.240.40 (talk) 23:46, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
新撰姓氏録は山上氏の出自について直接的に記述した唯一の一次史料ですから、まともな学者ならこれを外して議論を進める事はあり得ません。新撰姓氏録が山上氏を大春日朝臣と同族で天足彦国忍人命の後裔だとしているのは、まともな学者なら誰でも認める事実であって、たとえ渡来人説を唱える場合であっても、何を措いてもまず最初に記すべき事柄と言えます。
ウィキペディアでも、まず最初に新撰姓氏録の記述に言及すべきであり、渡来人説や反論については、その後で記載すべきだと思います。--Dwy (talk) 16:12, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Ainu Flag

Has anyone seen this? ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 18:26, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Nanshu is kind of an asshole, but it makes sense that the Ainu flag is not free.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh I saw your history with him, and honestly you both look like assholes... But on topic, I would think that a flag would be in the public domain, especially if someone (or group) used it besides the author? ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 19:51, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
You know now that I think about it, you two were headbutting over Ainu-related things a few months ago, so it's possibly why he looked for a reason to delete the flag? ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 19:56, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Public domain means that there is no copyright, and it seems there was one on the Ainu flag so no. There are flags that are not in the public domain because a governmental agency did not create the design.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:03, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Ok well that makes sense, but Nanshu said it's reasonable to assume that there's a copyright, so he doesn't actually know if there is one. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 20:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
The commons is often scared by copyright issues, even if they might not actually exist.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 20:12, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Wow... Well now the Ainu task force templates need to be updated, as well as anywhere else that used the flag. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 20:24, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Technically, non-country flags can (and often are) protected by copyright. Simply being a flag does not explicitly waiver copyright. For the same reason, Wikimedia Commons does not host the Australian Aboriginal Flag, see this file description and the relevant Commons discussion for more details. --benlisquareT•C•E 16:33, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
True, but your example is a case of the author strongly upholding his ownership rights, but the creator of the Ainu flag is dead and (as far as I know) did not make a scene about copyright issues. Has anyone been able to find information on this? ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 19:06, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
It does not matter. Any art created by Mr. Sunazawa will not enter the public domain until 50 years after his death. And the Commons will always err on the side of caution and would rather delete things than investigate if there actually is no copyright on the item. Additionally, there'd be no purpose to upload it here because it would not comply with WP:NFCC, as its uses here were simply decorative because there is no article dedicated to the flag.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:28, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Well, wouldn't NFCC be plausible for the Ainu people article though? After all, it is a visual symbol which represents the ethnic group. --benlisquareT•C•E 01:32, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
The article Ainu flag on the Ainu task force To Do List means that it may be in the process of being made. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 02:29, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Bad news from "an asshole." As Sunzawa Bikky died more than two decades ago, it is difficult today to know exactly what he thought. But both his late daughter Sunazawa Chinita and his son and successor of his art Sunazawa Jin were/are highly critical of the unauthorized, unethical use of Bikky's name and works ( for example). They were/are also vocal critics of corrupt Ainu activists. If you dig into this topic, you will find so many nasty things. You are about to gaze into the depths of the abyss. Good luck! --Nanshu (talk) 11:48, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Requested move

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Yoshihide Ōtomo#Requested move, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Michitaro (talk) 01:08, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

"-kun" and "-sama"

See WP:RM for Feb 4/2014 where several articles are proposed to be renamed from X-sama/X-kun to Xsama/Xkun. -- 70.50.148.248 (talk) 01:54, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

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