A handbook of colloquial Japanese

Basil Hall Chamberlain, University Of California Libraries

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!lM^ Denton.FlorenceMary>A HANDBOOK OF JAPANESE.COLLOQUIAL BY BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN, \\ PROFESSOR OF AND PHILOLOGY IN THEJAPANESE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN. LONDON : TRUBNER & & LUDGATE HILL.Co., 57 59, TOKYO: THE GINZA.HAKUBUNSHA, YOKOHAMA\ KELLY & WALSH LIMITED. >HONGKONG | JSINGAPORE 1888, [All rights reserved.}PREFACE. THE author's thanks are due to various Japanese for kind assistance rendered them to-gentlemen by wards the ofthe andwork, especiallyproduction present to His Vice-Minister ofExcellency Tsuji Shinji, to Mr. T. Instructor-in-ChiefEducation, Nishimura, at the Fifth Middle School of toKumamoto,Upper ofMr. T. of the StatisticalImai, Manager Society to Mr. of ofS. Chief the Bureau Com-Isawa,Tokyo, in the Educational andpilation Department,Imperial to Mr. Y. of the Household.Sannomiya, Imperial His thanks are to Mr. Rouwenhorstlikewise due Mulder, and more to Mr. Ernest C. M. G.,Satow,especially Her Britannic Minister Resident atMajesty's Bangkok, for to make use of some of the con-permission examples tained in that valuablework unfortu-gentleman's (now " out of the Kuaiwa Hen." The idea ofnately print), each with a literal interlinearfurnishing example version in addition to wasthe usual free translation Dr. E. of thesuggested by Baelz, Imperial University, and it is to be one of the most usefulwill, hoped, prove features of the work. M17591611 PREFACE. So far the As for the the authorfuture,past. to willwill be most who favourgrateful any persons him either with corrections of misstatements whichany the or withbook forcontain,present may suggestions the better elucidation of the difficult withlanguage which it deals. IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN. 1888.October,CONTENTS. (THEORETICAL PART.) CHAPTER. PAGE I. RemarksIntroductory 3 II. Pronunciation and . . . 12.Letter-Changes. III. The Noun 24 IV. The Pronoun 40 V. The Postposition 55 VI. The Numeral 88 VII. The Adjective 107 VIII. The Verb 133 IX. * . .,, ,, (continued) 176 X. The and . . .Adverb, Interjection, Conjunction. 207 XI. Honorifics. 219 XII. Syntax 233 (PRACTICAL, PART.) . .Anglo-Japanese Vocabulary 257 Short Phrases in Constant Use 273 Additional Useful Phrases 286 and Answers.Easy Questions 294 Proverbs............. 298 of Conversation.Scraps 304 ANECDOTES : " I. True .Economy." 332 " II. Thankful Kichibei." 336 " IfIII. Their Will Come .Wait,They Ages Right." 342 "" Botan-Dor5 of a(two Chapters Novel.) 346 "" ?Why (a Leading Article.) 400 Japanese-English Vocabulary 410 Index of Treated.Subjects 483 Additions and Corrections 485