Errata

This page is intended to correct errors in my publications. It is limited to substantive errors; grammatical mistakes and stylistic infelicities are not included.  I would be most grateful for notification of unlisted errors.  Corrections to my 2011 book can be found here.

On the Inscription of the Hitomaro Poetry Collection (Man'yoshu Kenkyu 26, 2004)

• p. 44 note 8: "The 210 poems of the former, more fully logographic group comprise 196 tanka and 210 sedoka." CORRECTION: "196 tanka and 14 sedoka." (7 June 2004)

The Origins of Writing in Early Japan (Columbia University Ph.D. Dissertation, 2001).

• p. 13: "1300 B.C.E. to 350 B.C.E."  CORRECTION: Recent discoveries I was unaware of at the time I wrote the dissertation, and calibration of radiocarbon dates would necessitate reconsidering the dates of the Jomon period (see Junko Habu, Ancient Jomon of Japan [Cambridge University Press, 2005]), but that is not the point of this correction: what I meant to write was, of course, "13,000 B.C.E." (11 January 2005)
• p. 92, note 29: "Sugimoto and Mori 1985 also provide a useful archaeologically focused commentary." CORRECTION: I don't what I was thinking when I wrote this; apart from the awkward wording, it is just wrong.  The Sugimoto and Mori commentary is an important resource, but it is primarily devoted to the exegesis of the text's wording and to comparisons to other treatises on the "Eastern Barbarians." (11 January 2005)
  
• p. 206: "As of this writing, I am not aware of any discoveries that have been announced as predating the Naniwa and Kannonji mokkan." CORRECTION: Strictly speaking this is not wrong, as when I wrote the sentence I was not aware of such discoveries.  However, I should have been: in 1990 mokkan thought to date back to the first half of the 7th century were excavated from the Uenomiya (上之宮) and Yamadadera (山田寺) sites in Nara prefecture.  These finds, which do not significantly affect the broad arguments presented in the dissertation, are addressed in the book manuscript I am currently preparing.  (11 November 2004)
• p. 428: for the incomplete citation of Chartier 1995, CORRECTION: Chartier, Roger. 1995. "Princely Patronage and the Economy of Dedication." Lydia G. Cochrane, trans. Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (18 October 2005)
• p. 429: ADD: Davies, W.V. 1987. Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Reading the Past, Volume 6). University of California Press/British Museum. (11 January 2005)
• p. 433: in the citation for Inukai 1996, CORRECTION: for "taisei" read "taikei." (18 October 2005)
  
• p. 449: ADD: Yu, Ying-shih. 1986. "Han Foreign Relations," in Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe, eds., The Cambridge History of China Volume 1: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.-A.D. 220. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. (11 January 2005)
  

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