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The book mentioned, the Manyo-Shu, is a collection of many types of poems, some dating back as early as the 700s. Are all dated, or are there some that were not dated at all?
It's always interesting to see what may have been around during these times. Somethings that I would have liked to read may have been destroyed in fires, raids, and the like, or have become so old that they may have faded into something incomprehensible. It is likely that many of the treasures of ancient times being found around the world right now might be older, simply because some scripts were rewritten to replace older ones. I remember reading something about this happening in Sparta, where they had a group of people who would rewrite entire books, by hand, for several weeks to make more copies if necessary, so that the works would not be lost.
Japan may have been settled for a long time, considering that the Mongolians were able to cross to Japan in river boats, which, incidentally, lead the the destruction of the entire fleet of boats during an unexpected typhoon and the loss of tens of thousands of Mongolian lives. I believe the same disaster went down in Japanese mythology, but to tell you the truth, I haven't actually read up much on the disaster itself.
Language 'drift' from other Orient languages to Japanese is something that many historians have been trying to accomplish for years. Unfortunately, we have no idea what base language was actually used, what characters could likely have been altered into what, how fast the rate of adaption was, or if they just molded themselves a new language or dialect that was close to Chinese symbols. Either way, script from the past may have been difficult to come by, as Japan is not exactly built for, at the time, cities of majesty that came around later. So in the very early years of Japan, the closest that literature in Japan might have been small cities which had a few recorders of major events in the cities history. If the city was razed, or abandoned, then those records might have been lost.
I'm no major welath of knowledge on the subject, and it is getting a little late. Hopefully I remembered most of that correctly.
It's always interesting to see what may have been around during these times. Somethings that I would have liked to read may have been destroyed in fires, raids, and the like, or have become so old that they may have faded into something incomprehensible. It is likely that many of the treasures of ancient times being found around the world right now might be older, simply because some scripts were rewritten to replace older ones. I remember reading something about this happening in Sparta, where they had a group of people who would rewrite entire books, by hand, for several weeks to make more copies if necessary, so that the works would not be lost.
Japan may have been settled for a long time, considering that the Mongolians were able to cross to Japan in river boats, which, incidentally, lead the the destruction of the entire fleet of boats during an unexpected typhoon and the loss of tens of thousands of Mongolian lives. I believe the same disaster went down in Japanese mythology, but to tell you the truth, I haven't actually read up much on the disaster itself.
Language 'drift' from other Orient languages to Japanese is something that many historians have been trying to accomplish for years. Unfortunately, we have no idea what base language was actually used, what characters could likely have been altered into what, how fast the rate of adaption was, or if they just molded themselves a new language or dialect that was close to Chinese symbols. Either way, script from the past may have been difficult to come by, as Japan is not exactly built for, at the time, cities of majesty that came around later. So in the very early years of Japan, the closest that literature in Japan might have been small cities which had a few recorders of major events in the cities history. If the city was razed, or abandoned, then those records might have been lost.
I'm no major welath of knowledge on the subject, and it is getting a little late. Hopefully I remembered most of that correctly.
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