A New Way to Input Ligatures Found in Kirishitan-ban
James Harry Morris
· 2024
Abstract
Abstract: This annotation explores a newly developed font that allows users to input special characters (ligatures and logograms) found in texts produced by Jesuit missionaries to Japan and their followers. This new font allows users to create transcriptions that are more materially and typographically closer to the original sources, and the syntax used to input these special characters opens up the possibility for digital analysis of these transcriptions. The annotation contextualizes the discussion of the new font, it benefits, and limitations in relation to the current practices used by Japanologists to input these characters.
Matched Nanban terms
- anchor Kirishitan
- themes kirishitan-ban
Provenance
- openalex (W4400125727)
2026-04-30T19:55:57.143922+00:00
Extras
| openalex_concepts | Font; Annotation; Computer science; Relation (database); Syntax; Natural language processing; Linguistics; Artificial intelligence |
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| openalex_topics | Historical Linguistics and Language Studies; Translation Studies and Practices; Digital Humanities and Scholarship |
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