The Kuzushiji Project: Developing a Mobile Learning Application for Reading Early Modern Japanese Texts

要旨

Learning how to read kuzushiji is the most important skill for studying the history of pre-modern Japan and classical Japanese literature. However, the difficulty of acquiring this skill has prevented both scholars and amateurs from other fields and countries to work on classical Japanese writings. The kuzushiji project is an attempt to provide accessible resources and training on mobile devices for learning kuzushiji, and available for free. KuLA, the learning app we developed, has already been downloaded more than 36,000 times since its release in February 2016. In this paper, we describe our background, aims, and approach of our project, as well as the implementation of KuLA.

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