Daijirin
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Daijirin is a comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary edited by Akira Matsumura, and first published by Sanseido Books in 1988. This title is based upon two early Sanseidō dictionaries edited
Daijirin Third Edition
A Sanseidō bookstore in Jinbōchō, Tokyo (2021). An advertisement for Daijirin can be seen
Man'yōgana
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Man'yōgana is an ancient Japanese writing system that uses Chinese characters to phonetically represent Old Japanese. It was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to phonetically tran
Daijirin
…black and white, Sanseido included 19 two-color illustrations for topics like the seasons (with kigo), linguistics (synonymy), and Japanese language (Man'yōgana). According to Matsumura's preface, the process of editing the first edition took over 28 years. The second edition (1995) increased the number of…
A page from Katsura-bon Man'yōshū with poems written with man'yōgana and accompanied by hiragana transcription.