Japanese Names and How To Read Them

Albert J. Koop, Hogitaro Inada, Koop

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136214493
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

First published in 2005. This concise and comprehensive guide to the reading and interpretation of Japanese proper names, dates and other formal expressions was first published in 1923. Intended for the use of art collectors and students who wish to find the identity of signatures in Japanese ideographs, the book offers instructions on counting the strokes of a character, analysing sounds, predicting consonantal and vowel changes, reading dates, and analysing signatures. Also included are listings of Emperors, personages, and provinces, an index of names, and a dictionary of characters used in names.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• The Kegan Paul Japan Library
• Full Title
• Copyright
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION—Method of using the work. Arrangement of the Dictionary: Characters, Readings, Illustrative Examples
• CHAPTER I.—How to count the strokes of a character. Variant Forms: Minor Script Variations
• CHAPTER II.—The Kana. Analysis of Japanese Sounds; the Iroha-uta and Gojūon-dzu. Uses of the Kana; Kana Combinations
• CHAPTER III.—The Nigori. Consonantal and Vowel changes
• CHAPTER IV.—The Numerals: Cardinals, Ordinals, Numeral Suffixes. Numerals as used in Dates and Statements of Age
• CHAPTER V.—Personal Names and Titles: Clan and Family Names, Art and Semi-religious Names
• CHAPTER VI.—Typical Signatures, how to analyse and interpret them
• CHAPTER VII.—Numerical Categories: Lists of Famous Groups of Personages, Provinces, Post-stations, Books, Art-subjects, the Genjimon, etc.
• CHAPTER VIII.—Words expressing Family Relationships
• CHAPTER IX.—List of the Radicals
• CHAPTER X.—Beginner's List of Common Characters used in Names, etc., with their usual Readings
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, ETC.
• DICTIONARY OF CHARACTERS USED IN NAMES
• INDEX OF NAMES
• ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA
• ADDENDA