TY - GEN AU - Robert,Jean-Noël TI - Japanese Hieroglossia: Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 February 2012 SN - 978-2-7226-0271-7 PY - 2013/// CY - Paris PB - Collège de France KW - Language & Linguistics KW - mystique KW - philologie KW - poésie bouddhique KW - religion KW - philology KW - mysticism KW - Japanese literature N1 - Ebook N2 - At a very early stage, Japanese civilization asserted itself in a relationship of “linguistic competition” with Chinese, in both the religious, the literary, and the intellectual spheres. This cultural symbiosis linked to the shaping of a language, that Jean-Noël Robert has called hieroglossia, was the primary source of the speech that Yasunari Kawabata delivered upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968: By drawing on Japanese Buddhist poetry, he placed himself in the Zen tradition and the mysticism of the language of the Shingon school, according to which there is a direct link between linguistic signs and the substance of things UR - https://books.openedition.org/cdf/3094 ER -