Literature in Bloom

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Purpose

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A project to explore 花言葉 (hanakotoba, lit. flower language) in Japanese and other literary corpora.

Dataset

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The dataset used for the current project was pulled from the following:

• Aozora Bunko Corpus for Japanese full text works
• Hanakotoba for flower names, translations, and associated characteristics
• Wikipedia for conversions of Japanese decimal classification codes (分類番号)
• Wikipedia for a list of major Japanese eras (時代)
• This page for a list of sub-eras (元年) Some of these didn’t end up being necessary for the main project but are included with the accompanying code for genre and date conversions

Outputs

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• The main report, compiled with datapane and also in html format
• Historical era dataframe : Jidai.csv
• Sub-era dataframe : Gannen.csv
• Japanese genre code dataframe : Genres.csv
• Dataframe of all flowers/plants and associated characteristics : Hk_df.csv
• Dataframe with all text metainfo, calculated date columns, and tagged flower occurences with locations in the text : All_df.csv