San Zi Jing

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

The San Zi Jing ( 三字經 ) is a rather cool 'cathechism' of Confucian thought distilled into 'couplets' with lines each three kanji long. Written in the thirteenth century, it was widely popular once upon a time in China.

I am having difficulty finding any traces of it in Japan.
Maybe Hiraizumi sensei can help me here?


Some links
users.openface.ca/~dstephen/trimetric-UT8.htm
afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/wengu.php?l=Sanzijing
www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/sanzijing.html
raptor.depauw.edu/sanzijing/
www.china.org.cn/english/culture/88469.htm

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

And my one reference to maybe something similar in Japan:
www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/en/jbnu/200400000004/0123.htm

[solveig]

Noble Cousin!

Greetings from Solveig!

admin said:

The San Zi Jing ( 三字經 ) is a rather cool 'cathechism' of Confucian thought distilled into 'couplets' with lines each three kanji long. Written in the thirteenth century, it was widely popular once upon a time in China.

Try looking up honchousanjikyou (本朝三字経)

Incidentally, there must be a better way to do this than manually looking up unicode character codes. Isn't there a manual for this system someplace?

Your Humble Servant
Solveig Throndardottir
Amateur Scholar

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

Solveig-sensei!

What I've been doing when I type 'new text' (ie ... not stuff I just cut-and-paste out of google) is to type the hiragana in a special editor ( JWPce ) which includes a dictionary lookup function. Then I can cut and paste into the text widgets on this board. I grant that it is not a very efficient process.

JWPce is available here:
www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html

Thank you for the honchousanjikyou formulation!

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

From
www.let.osaka-u.ac.jp/~okajima/3jikyau.txt

(1) 本朝三字經
hon chou san ji (kyou/tate/)
(Japanese) Imperial three character classic

(2A) 我日本
waga ni hon
Our nation (Japan)

(2B) 一稱和
ichi tataeru wa
First in praise

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

(3A) 地膏腴
chi kou kou
earth fat fat (abundant)

(3B) 生嘉禾
sei yoi nogi
life/birth praise 2-branch-tree (golden harvest)