The western rediscovery of the Japanese language

Author(s)

• Kaiser, Stefan
• Medhurst, Walter Henry
• Rosny, Léon de
• Alcock, Rutherford, Sir
• Brown, Samuel Robbins
• Hepburn, J. C. (James Curtis)
• Hoffmann, Johann Joseph
• Aston, William George
• Satow, Ernest Mason, Sir
• Imbrie, William M.
• Noack, Philipp
• Chamberlain, Basil Hall

Bibliographic Information

The western rediscovery of the Japanese language

edited with an introduction by Stefan Kaiser

Curzon, 1995

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4
• v. 5
• v. 6
• v. 7
• v. 8

Note

"These reprints are taken from original copies of each book."--t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• v. 1. An English and Japanese and Japanese and English vocabulary / W.H. Medhurst
• Introduction au Cours de Japonais (2nd ed.) / L. de Rosny
• v. 2. Elements of Japanese grammar for the use of beginners / R. Alcock
• Colloquial Japanese, or, Conversational sentences and dialogues ... / S.R. Brown
• v. 3. A Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionary. 7th ed. 1903 / J.C. Hepburn
• v. 4. A Japanese grammar / J.J. Hoffmann
• A grammar of the Japanese writtenlanguage with a short chrestomathy / W.G. Aston
• A short grammar of the Japanese spoken language. 4th ed. / W.G. Aston
• v. 5. Kuaiwa hen, twenty-five exercises in the Yedo colloquial ... / E. Satow
• Revised and enlarged edition of exercises in the Yokohama dialect revised and corrected at ... / Bishop of Homoco
• v. 6. A short grammar of the Japanese spoken language (3rd ed.) / W.G. Aston
• Handbook of English-Japanese etymology (2nd ed.) / W. Imbrie
• v. 7. Lehrbuch der japanischen Sprache / Philipp Noack
• v. 8. A handbook of colloquial Japanese (2nd ed.) / B.H. Chamberlain

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This important collection incorporates many of the key works (in total fourteen) by Western scholars and others on different aspects of the Japanese language which represent the second, or 'rediscovery' phase - the first being dominated by Jesuit linguistic scholarship at the turn of the sixteenth/seventeenth centuries resulting from their attempts to convert Japan to Christianity. These language resources and skills, however, were virtually wiped out during the following two centuries when Western culture and religion were outlawed (1630s-1850s).

Table of Contents

• Introduction de 1'etude de la Langue Japonaise, L. de Rosny, (c.1856)
• Proeve eener Japansche Spraakkunst, D. Curtius, (1857)
• Elements of Japanese Grammar, R. Alcock, (1861)
• Colloquial Japanese, or conversational sentences and dialogues in English and Japanese, with an introduction to the grammatical structure of the Japanese language S.R. Brown, (1863)
• A Japanese grammar, translated from the Dutch, J. Hoffman, (1867)
• Exercises in the Yokohama dialect (preface), H. Atkinson, (1870)
• A short grammar of the Japanese spoken language, W.G. Aston, (1871)
• A grammar of the Japanese written language with a short chrestomathy W.G. Aston, (1872)
• Twenty-five exercises in the Yedo colloquial, for the use of students, with notes, E. Satow and Kuaiwa Hen, (1873)
• Die Lehre von dem Te-Ni-Wo-Fa, A. Pfizmaier, (1873)
• Prendergast's Mastery System adapted to the study of Japanese or English, S.R. Brown, (1884)
• A handbook of colloquial Japanese, B.H. Chamberlain, (1887)
• Lehrbuch der Japanischen Umgangssprache, R. Lange, (1890).

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Details

• NCID: BA24210963
• ISBN:
  • 0700703160
  • 0700703160
  • 0700703160
  • 0700703160
  • 0700703160
  • 0700703160
  • 0700703160
  • 0700703160
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engjpn
• Place of Publication: Richmond, Surrey
• Pages/Volumes: 8 v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC6 : 810.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Japanese language