by hkum

Professor Hiroshi KUMAMOTO, Ph.D.


From the Annals of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo

(in Japanese)

At the Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 1996

Volume 9 (2007) Separate page (html)
Volume 8 (2005) Separate page (html)
Volume 7 (2003) Separate page (html)
Volume 6 (2001) PDF for Acrobat 4 or later (88KB)
Volume 5 (1999) PDF for Acrobat 4 or later (67KB)
Volume 4 (1997) PDF for Acrobat 4 or later (81KB)
Volume 3 (1995) PDF for Acrobat 4 or later (67KB)


Forthcoming!


Publications in PDF


Old Stuff

  •   "Hagauṣṭa. Sūlī", IBU Bulletin, 17, 1985, 1-22. [in Japanese]
  •   "A Sanskrit-Khotanese Conversation Manual for the Traveler in the Western Regions", Bulletin of the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies, Kyoto University 28, 1988, 53-82 [in Japanese with English resumé]
  •   "Two Khotanese Fragments concerning Thyai Paḍä-tsā", TULIP (= Tokyo University Linguistic Papers) 11, 1991, 101-120
  •   "Some Khotanese Letters in Verse", TULIP (= Tokyo University Linguistic Papers) 12, 1991, 59-80
  •   "More Khotanese Letters and Verses", TULIP (= Tokyo University Linguistic Papers) 13, 1993, 145-184
  •   "Miscellaneous Khotanese Documents from the Pelliot Collection", TULIP (= Tokyo University Linguistic Papers) 14, 1995, 229-257
  •   "What lies behind the phonographic script — Brāhmī script in Central Asia", Paper read at the 115th LSJ Meeting Plenary Session at Kyoto University, October 11, 1997 [= TULIP 17, 1998, 221-229] [in Japanese]

Conference Presentations with slides

  •   "Khotanese Documents in the Pelliot Collection — Saka Documents Text Volume II" (a paper read at the symposium "A Hundred Years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007", held at the British Library/British Museum on May 17-19, 2007.)(PDF 71KB)
    • Presentation Slides (PowerPoint) (PPT 7.5MB!)
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    •  PDF file of the Slides (PDF 2MB!)

  •   "The St. Petersburg Bilingual Documents and Problems of Chronology" (a paper read at the symposium "The Kingdom of Khotan to AD 1000: A Meeting of Cultures" held at the British Library on May 10-11, 2004, in conjunction with the exhibition The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith. [To be published in the Proceedings in 2005-2006, with some stylistic modifications])(PDF 806KB)
    • Presentation Slides (PowerPoint) (PPT 10MB!)
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  •   "The Maitreya-samiti and Khotanese" (a paper read at the: "Symposium franco-japonais : «Interactions et translations culturelles en Eurasie». («Dynamic Interactions of Cultures in Eurasia»)" jointly held by the University of Tokyo and l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, in Paris, December 12-13, 2002) [To be published in the Proceedings in 2004-2005, separately in Tokyo and Paris, with some stylistic modifications] (PDF 167KB)
    • Presentation Slides (PowerPoint) (PPT 1688KB)
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