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scholarship, schooling, and the book trade treat as a national literary tradition, from eighth-century chronicles and court poetry through Heian narrative, medieval war tales and linked verse, Edo popular fiction and haikai, to the modern novel, poetry, drama, and criticism.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the criteria, evidence and uncertainties through which works, versions and corpora participate in Japanese literary traditions, including their language, forms, transmission, historical positioning and reception.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence for including or excluding a work or corpus, with language, geography and literary affiliation recorded separately", "Japanese literary forms, conventions and relationships among prose, poetry, performance and mixed media", "Textual witnesses, editions, translations and adaptations as distinct routes of access to a literary work", "Historical positioning, literary institutions and competing interpretations relevant to understanding a work", "Evidence-based selection, comparison, annotation and reuse of Japanese literary materials" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Comprehensive author biographies and personal identity records", "Japanese grammar, language teaching and general linguistic description", "General Japanese political, social or religious history independent of a literary question", "Physical conservation and ownership administration of manuscripts and books", "Publishing-business operations and authoritative legal determinations", "Independent models of films, games or visual artworks linked through adaptation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A work's subject being Japan is insufficient by itself: inclusion requires an explicit language, production, circulation or literary-affiliation rationale.", "Japanese-language composition and Japanese literary affiliation are tested separately; neither author citizenship nor place of publication settles both.", "A translation into Japanese must be distinguishable from a work originally composed in Japanese, while allowing evidence of its participation in Japanese literary life.", "Literary status requires evidence of artistic practice, performance, presentation or reception; Japanese-language administrative and informational texts are not automatically included.", "A work, its surviving textual witnesses, its modern edition and its translated or adapted forms remain distinguishable even when they share a title." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Basis of Japanese literary affiliation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "One or more evidenced bases: composition language, literary lineage, production context, circulation, reception, self-identification; disputed or unresolved permitted", "why_it_matters": "Prevents national identity, language and literary tradition from being collapsed into a single membership test." }, { "name": "Language and script configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attested languages and scripts, including classical or modern Japanese, kanbun, kana and mixed writing where applicable; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Determines reading requirements and exposes information lost through transcription, modernization or translation." }, { "name": "Literary form attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attributed form labels such as monogatari, nikki, zuihitsu, waka, renga, haikai, haiku or shōsetsu; multiple, disputed or unclassified permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison without assuming that historical Japanese categories map directly onto modern English genre labels." }, { "name": "Textual access state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Witness identified, edition identified, transcription checked, translation only, fragmentary, inaccessible or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Limits what an agent can claim about wording, completeness and formal features." }, { "name": "Composition and publication dating", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dates or date intervals, with calendar, event type, source and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates composition, copying, serialization and later publication when placing a work historically." }, { "name": "Version and mediation relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Witness of, edited from, modernized from, translated from, adapted from or excerpted from, with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Makes clear which text supports an interpretation or proposed use." }, { "name": "Reception and canon positioning", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed relationships to named anthologies, curricula, prizes, literary groups, criticism or readerships, qualified by place and time", "why_it_matters": "Treats prominence and marginalization as situated judgments rather than inherent literary quality." }, { "name": "Readiness for a proposed use", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Ready with evidence, ready with qualifications, requires textual verification, requires rights review or insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Connects the available edition, interpretation and permissions evidence to a specific action." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess a proposed corpus inclusion and explain the evidence, boundary rule and unresolved objections.", "Select an edition or translation suited to close reading, teaching, comparison or quotation.", "Compare literary forms while preserving historical terminology and identifying features obscured by translation.", "Trace relationships among textual witnesses, modernizations, translations and adaptations.", "Produce annotations that distinguish textual evidence, contextual evidence and attributed interpretation.", "Assess whether a proposed quotation, translation or computational analysis has adequate textual and permissions evidence." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "cambridge-history-2016", "title": "The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature (Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki, and David Lurie, eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2016", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Periodization from chronicles and court poetry through modern and contemporary writing; the place of kanbun; canon and genre distinctions used in scholarship" }, { "id": "keene-seeds-1993", "title": "Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (Donald Keene), Columbia University Press, 1993", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Classical and medieval genres (waka, monogatari, gunki, renga, nō) and the survival and loss of early texts" }, { "id": "keene-dawn-1984", "title": "Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Donald Keene), Columbia University Press, 1984", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Meiji-to-modern novel, poetry, and drama; junbungaku versus popular writing; prize and publishing culture" }, { "id": "britannica-japanese-literature", "title": "Japanese literature, Encyclopaedia Britannica", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/art/Japanese-literature", "what_it_supports": "Survey definition, major period names, and the conventional genre map used outside specialist kokubungaku", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "literary-affiliation-and-boundaries", "name": "Literary affiliation and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what Japanese literature means for the work or corpus under consideration.", "rationale": "Language, territory, citizenship and literary participation can produce different boundaries and must remain separately assessable.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-and-affiliation", "name": "Language and affiliation", "description": "Tests membership through linguistic and literary evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-inclusion", "name": "Basis for inclusion", "description": "Record the proposed inclusion rule and evidence supporting its application, including cases involving kanbun or multilingual writing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does inclusion depend on composition in Japanese, participation in a Japanese literary tradition, or another explicitly stated criterion?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-inclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which textual or scholarly evidence supports that criterion for this work, especially if its language and literary affiliation differ?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-inclusion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contested-national-and-literary-edges", "name": "Contested national and literary edges", "description": "Handles overlapping traditions and uncertain literary status without forcing exclusive classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "overlapping-traditions", "name": "Overlapping traditions", "description": "Record competing placements of diasporic, colonial, Indigenous or multilingual works using the terminology of identified sources and communities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would inclusion of this work obscure an Ainu, Ryukyuan, Korean, diasporic or other affiliation that needs separate recognition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "overlapping-traditions-q01" }, { "text": "Which authors, communities or scholarly sources support or contest its placement within Japanese literature?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "overlapping-traditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "japanese-literary-forms-and-reading", "name": "Japanese literary forms and reading", "description": "Identifies the formal and linguistic features necessary for a defensible reading.", "rationale": "Japanese genre terms, writing systems and poetic practices can carry distinctions that broad translated labels conceal.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-form-conventions", "name": "Historical form conventions", "description": "Locates a work within evidenced formal practices rather than assigning a genre from surface resemblance.", "findings": [ { "id": "form-and-compositional-practice", "name": "Form and compositional practice", "description": "Record attributed genre terms and relevant conventions, such as linked composition, prose-poetry combination or sound-count patterns.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which form labels are used by the work, its historical readers and later scholarship, and where do those labels disagree?", "kind": "definition", "id": "form-and-compositional-practice-q01" }, { "text": "If a claim depends on counted sound units, stanza structure or linking rules, what exactly is counted or tested in the identified Japanese text?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "form-and-compositional-practice-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "script-voice-and-allusion", "name": "Script, voice and allusion", "description": "Captures reading dependencies that may change across editions and languages.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretively-significant-language", "name": "Interpretively significant language", "description": "Identify passages where script choice, furigana, register, omitted subjects, wordplay or allusion materially affects interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reading depends on an attested script choice, reading gloss, register shift or allusion, and which edition preserves that evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interpretively-significant-language-q01" }, { "text": "What annotation or parallel presentation is needed before an agent can explain a feature obscured by modernization or translation?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretively-significant-language-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "textual-transmission-and-mediation", "name": "Textual transmission and mediation", "description": "Establishes which textual object is available and how it relates to other versions.", "rationale": "Claims about Japanese literature may rely on manuscript traditions, edited texts or translations whose wording and completeness differ.", "layers": [ { "id": "witnesses-and-editions", "name": "Witnesses and editions", "description": "Separates work identity from the evidence supplied by a particular witness or edition.", "findings": [ { "id": "textual-basis-and-intervention", "name": "Textual basis and intervention", "description": "Record the source text, relevant variants and editorial interventions such as punctuation, character normalization or supplied readings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manuscript, print witness or critical edition supports the passage, and what is known about its relationship to other witnesses?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "textual-basis-and-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "Which editorial interventions or missing portions could change the proposed quotation or interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "textual-basis-and-intervention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "translations-and-adaptations", "name": "Translations and adaptations", "description": "Tracks mediated access while distinguishing translation, modernization, excerpt and adaptation.", "findings": [ { "id": "mediation-fidelity-and-limits", "name": "Mediation fidelity and limits", "description": "Record the source version and declared transformations of a translation or adaptation, including a modern Japanese rendering of an older text.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source edition underlies this rendering, and is it complete, abridged, indirect or of uncertain derivation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mediation-fidelity-and-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Can this rendering support the intended claim about Japanese wording, poetic form or narrative voice, or is consultation of its source necessary?", "kind": "action", "id": "mediation-fidelity-and-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-production-and-reception", "name": "Historical production and reception", "description": "Situates a work within evidenced conditions of composition, circulation and interpretation.", "rationale": "Period labels and canon judgments are insufficient unless tied to the institutions, audiences and events relevant to the work.", "layers": [ { "id": "production-and-circulation", "name": "Production and circulation", "description": "Identifies the literary setting and material route by which a work reached audiences.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-literary-production", "name": "Situated literary production", "description": "Record relevant settings such as court exchange, linked-verse gatherings, commercial print, literary magazines or web serialization when supported by evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes this work's composition, performance, serialization or publication setting and intended audience?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-literary-production-q01" }, { "text": "Does the assigned Japanese historical or literary period describe composition, surviving textual form or later reception?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-literary-production-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "canon-and-interpretive-disagreement", "name": "Canon and interpretive disagreement", "description": "Distinguishes institutional recognition and critical claims from properties directly evidenced in the text.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-reception", "name": "Attributed reception", "description": "Record whose evaluations establish a work's status and how interpretations differ across Japanese and international contexts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which named anthologies, curricula, literary institutions or critics support a claim of canonical, popular or marginalized status, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-reception-q01" }, { "text": "Which competing readings must remain attributed rather than being presented as the work's settled meaning?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-reception-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "responsible-reading-and-reuse", "name": "Responsible reading and reuse", "description": "Connects textual and contextual evidence to concrete agent actions.", "rationale": "Useful action requires choosing suitable Japanese texts and translations, preserving uncertainty and checking the conditions of the intended use.", "layers": [ { "id": "selection-and-comparison", "name": "Selection and comparison", "description": "Makes corpus construction and comparative reading explicit and reviewable.", "findings": [ { "id": "fitness-for-literary-task", "name": "Fitness for literary task", "description": "Assess whether selected works and versions suit a teaching, reading or analytical task without silently substituting translated availability for representativeness.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which periods, forms, language practices and literary affiliations does the selection represent or omit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fitness-for-literary-task-q01" }, { "text": "Which edition, translation and contextual notes best support the requested comparison, and what limitations must accompany it?", "kind": "action", "id": "fitness-for-literary-task-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "quotation-and-computational-use", "name": "Quotation and computational use", "description": "Checks whether the available text and use evidence support quotation, transformation or analysis.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-specific-readiness", "name": "Use-specific readiness", "description": "Assess transcription reliability and distinguish permissions evidence for the underlying work, translation, annotations and digital source.", "questions": [ { "text": "Before quoting or analyzing this text, have relevant OCR errors, historical character forms, ruby readings and segmentation choices been checked?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-specific-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What rights or license evidence applies to the specific Japanese edition, translation or digital transcription in the intended jurisdiction and use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "use-specific-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Classical court literature (Nara-Heian): official chronicles, imperial waka anthologies, monogatari, nikki, zuihitsu", "Medieval literature (Kamakura-Muromachi): gunki monogatari, setsuwa, renga, nō plays, recluse writing", "Early modern / Edo literature: haikai and hokku, ukiyo-zōshi and gesaku fiction, kabuki and jōruri texts, kokugaku philology", "Modern literature (Meiji-1945): the shōsetsu, shintaishi, Naturalism, the I-novel (shishōsetsu), proletarian and wartime writing", "Contemporary literature (post-1945): junbungaku, taishū bungaku, and later genre fiction including light novels at the canon's edge", "Dramatic literature as text: nō, kyōgen, bunraku/jōruri, kabuki, shingeki", "Verse practice as a distinct field: waka/tanka, haiku/haikai, kanshi, free verse", "Sino-Japanese letters (kanbun and kanshi) as a parallel classical canon inside Japan" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Japanese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q1146031", "note": "Item for Japanese literature (日本文学) as a literary tradition, not the Japanese language" }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Classification", "value_or_pattern": "PL700-PL889", "note": "Japanese literature; PL501-PL689 is language rather than literature" }, { "scheme": "Dewey Decimal Classification", "value_or_pattern": "895.6", "note": "Japanese literature within East Asian literatures" }, { "scheme": "Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC)", "value_or_pattern": "910", "note": "日本文学 in Japanese library practice" }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Subject Headings", "value_or_pattern": "Japanese literature", "note": "Authorized subject heading; subdivided by period, genre, and translations" }, { "scheme": "ISO 639-1 / 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "ja / jpn", "note": "Language of most of the corpus, not a literature code; kanbun texts sit outside this pair" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Japanese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Copyright Act of Japan (著作権法), Law No. 48 of 1970 as amended - Agency for Cultural Affairs; term generally life of the author plus 70 years since the 2018 amendment", "National Diet Library Law (国立国会図書館法) - National Diet Library; legal deposit of published books and magazines", "Act on Protection of Cultural Properties (文化財保護法) - Agency for Cultural Affairs; designates manuscripts, rare printed books, and related artefacts as cultural properties", "MEXT Course of Study (学習指導要領) for kokugo - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; sets which classical and modern works enter compulsory schooling", "Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, as implemented in Japanese copyright law - WIPO / Government of Japan", "JIS X 0208 / JIS X 0213 and Unicode/ISO/IEC 10646 - Japanese Standards Association and ISO/IEC; govern encoding of Japanese text in digital editions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Japanese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Kokugo classes in Japanese schools assign extracts from imperial anthologies, The Tale of Genji, Bashō, and modern novelists as set texts under the Course of Study", "University kokubungaku and comparative-literature departments edit texts, train teachers, and sustain the academic canon", "Trade publishing issues tankōbon then bunkobon; Aozora Bunko redistributes public-domain texts; the National Diet Library preserves legal-deposit copies", "Akutagawa and Naoki prizes, and their magazine serialization, still sort 'pure' from popular fiction for the book trade and newspapers", "Translation into other languages (especially English, French, Chinese, Korean) is how most non-Japanese readers meet the corpus, from Genji and haiku to Kawabata, Ōe, Murakami, and Tawada", "Literary sites and routes (Uji and The Tale of Genji; Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi) are used in tourism and local heritage policy", "Nō, kabuki, and bunraku scripts are performed as living theatre while also being read as literature" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Japanese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Waka (tanka) length", "typical_range": "31 (fixed 5-7-5-7-7)", "unit": "morae" }, { "quantity": "Haiku / hokku length", "typical_range": "17 conventional (5-7-5); modern free-form often diverges", "unit": "morae" }, { "quantity": "Manuscript or draft length on genkō yōshi", "typical_range": "short story about 30-80 sheets; novel several hundred", "unit": "400-character sheets" }, { "quantity": "Trade novel extent (bunkobon/tankōbon)", "typical_range": "about 200-400", "unit": "pages" }, { "quantity": "Imperial waka anthologies (chokusenshū)", "typical_range": "21 anthologies, 905-1439", "unit": "count" }, { "quantity": "Copyright term in Japan", "typical_range": "life + 70 (since 2018; formerly life + 50)", "unit": "years" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Japanese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Manuscript loss: many Heian titles survive only as names; early Genji witnesses are late and incomplete relative to the work's medieval reputation", "Fire, earthquake, and wartime destruction of libraries, temples, and publishers (notably 1923 Kantō and 1945 air raids) erase unique copies", "Censorship and self-censorship under Edo publishing controls, 1930s-45 wartime law, and Occupation screening distort what was printable", "Canon formation long sidelined women's writing, popular fiction, colonial Japanese-language writing, zainichi writing, and Ainu and Ryukyuan traditions", "Translation routinely drops keigo, kigo, honkadori allusion, and script-mixing (kanji/kana) that the original uses as meaning", "Junbungaku market shrinkage and magazine serialization decline change which careers and forms remain viable", "Romanization (Hepburn vs Kunrei) and title-spelling variants split catalogues and identity of the same work" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Japanese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Kokubungaku in Japan periodizes and values the corpus differently from English-language 'Japanese literature' courses, which often start from Genji, haiku, and a short modern-novel list in translation", "Ryukyuan/Okinawan-language writing and Ainu yukar sit beside, and are often excluded from, the national Japanese-literature syllabus", "Japanese-language literature from colonial Korea and Taiwan, and from diaspora communities (for example Brazil and the wartime United States), is only unevenly claimed as Japanese literature", "Edo-period centres differ: Kamigata (Osaka-Kyoto) ukiyo-zōshi, jōruri, and haikai versus Edo gesaku, kabuki, and later kokugaku", "Kanshi and kanbun were the elite written medium across East Asia; treating them as Japanese literature is a national-canon choice, not a linguistic given", "Prefectural and municipal heritage practice names local utamakura and literary walking routes that national literary histories barely register" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Japanese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Japanese language", "difference": "Language is the grammatical and lexical system (ISO 639 ja/jpn); Japanese literature is the received textual corpus written mainly in that language, plus kanbun by Japanese authors" }, { "name": "Chinese literature", "difference": "Kanshi and kanbun participate in Sinitic literary civilization, but Japanese literature is identified by Japanese authorship, circulation, and later kokubungaku reception, not by Literary Chinese as such" }, { "name": "Japanese folklore and oral tradition (minwa, yukar)", "difference": "Folklore is collected as ethnography or performance; it enters Japanese literature only when textualized in a received written genre such as setsuwa or a modern retelling" }, { "name": "Manga, anime scripts, and light novels", "difference": "They share language and publishing channels with literature; university syllabi, junbungaku prizes, and kokubungaku histories still usually treat them as adjacent media unless a specific work is canonized" }, { "name": "Kokugaku (national learning)", "difference": "Kokugaku is an Edo-Meiji philological and nativist scholarly movement about classical texts, not the literary works themselves" }, { "name": "World literature / translation studies", "difference": "That frame tracks circulation across languages; a work can be world literature in English and still be Japanese literature by original language, authorship, and domestic canon" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Japanese literature this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which inclusion policy should the registry adopt for kanbun, literature translated into Japanese and works affiliated with Japanese literary traditions but composed in other languages?", "How should overlapping Ainu, Ryukyuan, colonial and diasporic affiliations be represented without absorbing distinct traditions into an uncontested national category?", "Where should this entry's boundary fall for oral narrative, dramatic texts, manga, light novels and digitally serialized works, given neighbouring registry entries?", "Which scholarly authorities and edition catalogues should anchor form terminology, periodization and textual-version judgments while preserving disagreement?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept, requiring this registry entry to link to that model rather than receive a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Japanese literature, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a work or corpus as Japanese literature, assess its textual and interpretive state, and determine justified uses without treating contested boundaries as settled.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: gunki monogatari, early modern Japanese literature, early Japanese literary history, Medieval Japanese literature, Heian literature, hanashibon, jitsurokubon, Literature of the Five Mountains, Recluse literature, modern and contemporary Japanese literature, anti-naturalism, Yoyūha.", "17 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Japanese literature, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "gunki monogatari", "early modern Japanese literature", "early Japanese literary history", "Medieval Japanese literature", "Heian literature", "hanashibon", "jitsurokubon", "Literature of the Five Mountains", "Recluse literature", "modern and contemporary Japanese literature", "anti-naturalism", "Yoyūha" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 17 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Japanese literature from another, and a Japanese literature from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Japanese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Japanese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Japanese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Japanese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Japanese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Japanese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Japanese literature sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Japanese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Japanese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Japanese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Japanese literature from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Japanese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Japanese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Japanese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Japanese literature passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and 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it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a Japanese literature says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a Japanese literature contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Japanese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Japanese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Japanese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Japanese literature and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Japanese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Japanese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Japanese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of Japanese literature a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", 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"definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made Japanese literature and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to Japanese literature, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in Japanese literature, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Japanese literature came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ 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refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Japanese literature is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Japanese literature, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Japanese literature, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Japanese literature is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }