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HANDBOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/englishjapanesedOOsatouoft 5'^b'^Ce ^^^^ A .A-ItT ENGlISI-JAFiNESE DICTIONARY SPOKEN LANGUAGE COMPILEDOBIOINALLYBY ERNEST MASON SATOW (now Sir E. Satow, G.C.M.G.) AND ISHIBA8HI MASAKATA THIRD EDITION KEVISEDANDENLARGEDBY E. M. HOBART-HAMPDEN, B. A. AND HAROLD. PARLETT G. BOTH OF H. B. M. CONSULAB SEEVICE IN JAPAN. KELLY & WALSH Ld. "X'Oicoii-A.TyEji^, SH^A-iTQ-n^ft-i, noiTCj-iconsra- & Pbinted byTheShCkisha,Tokyo. 1904. (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED). BIBLIOGRAPHY. FiBST Edition. (Post 16mo.,xiv+366pp.) January, 1875- By Ernest Mason Satow, Japanese Secretaryto H. M. Legationat Yedo,and Lsbiba.shiMasakata, ofthe ImperialJapaneseForeign Office. Second Edition. (Post 16 mo., xvi4-415 pp.) January, 1879. By Ernest Mason Satow, B.A., Second Secretary and Japanese Secretary to H. M, Legation at Yedo, and Jshibashi Ma.sakata, a SecretaryoftheJapanese ForeignOffice. •->*<-• 1^ PREFACE, Duringthequarterofacentviry whichhaselapsed since the issiieofthelast editionofthisDictionary the vocabiilary of the Japanese SpokenLanguagehas been enriched by the addition of a very considerable body of fresh terms, technicalandother. Rome already existed in the literary language, othershave been newlycoinedtomeetthevariedneedsofNewJapan; but all, ornearlyall, are"Sinico-Japanese",andassuchhavenecessarilyfoundtheirAvayintoconver- — sational use through the medium of the AVritten Language, the press, the platform, and the bar being largely instrumental in gaining them colloquial currency. The process of colloqnialization, however, is not yet, perhaps never will be, ccmiDlete, and educated Japanese, to whom alone such terms are fiiUy intelligible, probably have the written character before their mind's eye while conversing. These considerationsaccountfortheonlyinnovation inthejwesent — edition of this work calling for sjiecial remark here, the insertion, namely, of Chinese characters wherever it appeared that their presence would add to the interestandgeneralutilityofthiscompilation,which,despitethisnewdeparture, remains, both in respect of vocabulary and grammatical forms, substantially a dictionaryoftheSpokenLanguage. Howmuchthis, thethird, edition owes to previous issues those acqvtainted withitspredecessors,which appearedin 1875 and 1879, will see forthemselves. Forhell)^^ it^preparation, the thanks of the jpresent compilers, who undertook thetaskofrevision and enlargement at SirErnestSatow's instancein 1898,are inthefirstplaceandinthelargest measure due to Mr. AmakuraEokunosukeof the"JajianDailyMail", Mr. KakiuchiKibo of the Imperial Household Depart- ment, Mr. Kanazawa Hisashi of the Tokyo Higher Commercial School, Mr. WatanabeGenjiroofNagoya,andMr.OzawaRyokichiofYokohama,eachofwhom has, over one sectionoranotherof thework, rendered invaluable, indeed indis- pensable, assistance. As works of reference Messrs. Eastlake and Tanahashi's JapaneseTranslationofWebster'sDictionary, the"UnabridgedJapanese-English Dictionary" of Captain F. Brinkley and Messrs. F. Nanjo and Y. Iwasaki, the "English-Japanese Dictionary" of Mr. Y. Shimada, and Mr. J. H, Gubbins' "DictionaryofChinese-Japanese Words" have been consultedwithgreatadvan- tage,whilemanyofthemilitarytermshavebeen taken from the "Dictionaryof Military Terms and Expressions" compiled by Colonel A. G. Churchill, late Military Attache toH.B. M.Legation at Tokyo. To many other books and to numerous friends thecompilers are indebted for various individual words and idioms. Eachneweditionofadictionary is but a groundworkforits successor, and nowhere is finalitylessattainablethaninJapanese lexicography. Of the many imperfectionsofthepresentwork the compilers are fully conscious, andcorrec- tions,additions,andsuggestionswillbeatalltimesgratefullywelcomed. May, 1904.