ÅŒtsuki Fumihiko

Otsuki Fumihiko (Japanese大 槻 文彦, Otsuki Fumihiko; * October 15, 1847 in Edo, † February 17, 1928 ) was a Japanese lexicographer, linguist and historian. He became known by the which he edited dictionaries of the Japanese, the Genkai (言 海, literally "Sea of ​​Words ", 1891) and its successor Daigenkai (大 言 海, literally " Great sea of ​​words"; 1932-37 ), and studies on the Japanese grammar.

Otsuki grew Edoer district Kobiki -chō on (木 挽 町), now part of Tokyo's Ginza. He was the third son of Confucian scholar and expert on gunnery Bankei Otsuki (大 槻 磐 渓) and grandson of the Confucian scholars and Rangaku Gentaku Otsuki (大 槻 玄 沢). The Following family tradition, he began with "Western studies " at the Kaiseijo School ( a predecessor of the University of Tokyo ), he studied English and mathematics. Later he worked as a translator while he learned English in the port city of Yokohama of Americans. From 1872 he participated in the publication of an English- Japanese dictionary, and later he worked on textbooks and gave lessons in schools of Miyagi Prefecture.

Although Otsuki came up for the cost of printing the first edition of Genkai itself, it was soon reissued and expanded to commercial issues, learned the requirements of more than 1000 copies. Designed partly on the model of Western monolingual dictionaries, Genkai gave information not only about the words - their presentation in Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana and their definitions in Japanese - but also their pronunciation, etymology, and citations of their use. The successor, the four-volume Daigenkai, although published names under Ōtsukis and based in part on his work, appeared a few years after his death. It was completed by other lexicographers.

Ōtsukis grammar books, especially " A comprehensive grammar of the Japanese " (広 日本 文 典, Kō Nihon Colorful ) and " grammar of colloquial Japanese " (口语 法, Kōgohō ), influenced the academic teaching of Japanese grammar even for future generations.

Swell

  • Grant Goodman: Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853. Routledge Curzon, Richmond, N. Y. 2000 ISBN. 0-7007-1220-8.
  • Donald Keene: Dawn to the West ( A history of Japanese literature, 3). 2nd Rev. ed Columbia University Press, New York 1998 ISBN. 0-231-11435-4.
  • Linguist
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1847
  • Died in 1928
  • Man
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