Genre compositionshare
Share of court documents
Share of own works in the court-document class (公車類: memorials, examination answers, royal edicts), by century.
5.6%of own works are court documents
Key point
Court documents (memorials, examination answers, edicts) are 5.6% of own works: 42% in the 9th century (Choe Chi-won), 9.1% and 8.7% in the 12th and 13th, 5.8% and 7.7% in the 16th and 17th, 2.4% in the 19th.
- Formula
- Court-document works / own works
- Caveats
- Documents submitted to or issued by the court, plus examination answers (對策), so the genre is tied to office and examinations; the authors' careers were not verified on this site.
- Reliability card
- exactExact count — read straight from the source XML
Classification quality: a stratified sample of 300 own works (major class × century) was blind-coded from titles; 97.3% agree with the ITKC major class (Wilson 95% 94.8%–98.6%; 3 undecided counted as disagreement; a second coder re-coded 30 of them blind with 97% agreement). Known block error: 284 works of 湖陰雜稿 (ITKC_MO_0126A) filed as 冊文類 carry poem titles; they are left as classified and noted here.
| Century | Works | Own works | By works | By characters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9th century | 164 | 389 | 42.2% | 37.9% |
| 12th century | 194 | 2,130 | 9.1% | 13.4% |
| 13th century | 114 | 1,309 | 8.7% | 14.0% |
| 14th century | 504 | 12,768 | 3.9% | 12.3% |
| 15th century | 1,322 | 35,198 | 3.8% | 11.4% |
| 16th century | 8,150 | 139,356 | 5.8% | 18.6% |
| 17th century | 15,302 | 198,054 | 7.7% | 17.6% |
| 18th century | 6,852 | 150,496 | 4.6% | 7.4% |
| 19th century | 1,628 | 69,085 | 2.4% | 3.9% |
| birth year unknown | 20 | 709 | 2.8% | 10.2% |