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Japanese Kanbun help

Postby Delodephius » Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:38 am

I have been learning Japanese for over a year now, but I have always been interested in Classical Chinese (Wényán wén). Most resources on the language use Mandarin pronunciation for the characters, and I was wondering where I could find the classics with Japanese pronunciation and Kanbun annotation. I haven't got much luck googling for it as my Japanese is not that good. Is anyone here familiar with any sites?
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Re: Japanese Kanbun help

Postby Bao » Sun Jan 03, 2016 11:44 am

Maybe there's some in the Japanese text initiative.
Or on Aozora Bunko.
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Re: Japanese Kanbun help

Postby vonPeterhof » Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:09 pm

Here are a couple of sites I've been using in my studies:

http://kanbun.info - contains the Analects, some Tang poetry and a few other texts.
http://mokusai-web.com/ - contains the major Neo-Confucian texts, including Mencius
http://seiwatei.net/kanbun/index.cgi - an unfortunately incomplete guide to kanbun annotation

If I couldn't find a particular text or line in one of those sites it's sometimes helped to just google the exact Chinese phrase while limiting the language of the search to Japanese. That way if you don't find the whole text, there are chances you'll at least find a blog post or a Yahoo Chiebukuro answer containing the kanbun annotation you need.
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Re: Japanese Kanbun help

Postby Delodephius » Mon Jan 04, 2016 10:41 pm

Thanks for those links vonPeterhof. I already knew about the kanbun.info site, but it didn't have Mencius, which I'm familiar with because the book I'm using to learn WYW uses paragraphs from it as examples. And yeah, I've learned already that sometimes it's best to just google the words I'm looking for. :D
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