This appears to be the oldest extant text in Japan written on paper and has been designated a national treasure. If the dating is correct, this version significantly predates other versions found in Japan that dating from the 15th century. www.harvard-yenching.org/research/stu...
Hitoshi Takahashi 高橋均 Tokyo: Sobunsha 創文社 2013 Reviewed by Yang Yang (PhD candidate, Kyoto University) Most of the annotations to the Analects of Confucius 論語 made by scholars from the Han Dynasty and...