Japanese Grammar Dictionary - Nihon Daibunten (English)Arte da Lingoa de Iapam Portuguese

Japanese: 日本大文典 - にほんだいぶんてん(英語表記)Arte da Lingoa de Iapam ポルトガル語
Japanese Grammar Dictionary - Nihon Daibunten (English)Arte da Lingoa de Iapam Portuguese

A three-volume Japanese language textbook written by Rodrigues. It was published between 1604 (Keicho 9) and 1608 for the purpose of helping Christian missionaries learn Japanese. It provides a detailed discussion of the general phenomenon of the national language at the time, with many concrete examples, centering on grammar, but also covering phonology, characters, spelling, vocabulary, style, and dialect. While it is based on the construction of the Latin grammar at the time, it also refers to the Japanese side and contains the author's own ideas. Along with the Nippon-Portuguese Dictionary, it is an essential resource for contemporary Japanese language research. This work was developed and expanded by the Arte breue da Lingoa Iapoa (published in Macau in 1620), which must be referred to when using the Dai Nippon Grammar. Copies of each are currently in existence at the Crawford House in England and at the Bowery Library of Oxford University.

[Kenji Abe]

"The Great Japanese Grammar by Doi Tadao (1955, Sanseido)""The Great Japanese Grammar by Doi Tadao and Mitsuhashi Ken (1976, Benseisha)""Christian Materials and Japanese Language Research by Fukushima Kunmichi (1973, Kasama Shoin)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ロドリゲス著、三巻一冊の日本語学書。キリシタン宣教師の日本語修得を目的として、1604年(慶長9)から08年にかけて刊行された。文法を中心に音韻、文字、綴字(つづりじ)、語彙(ごい)、文体、方言に至るまで、当時の国語現象全般を豊富な具体例をあげて詳細に論述している。当時行われたラテン文典の構成を根幹としつつも、日本側の所説も参照し、著者独自の考えもある。『日葡(にっぽ)辞書』とともに当代国語研究に不可欠の資料である。本書を整備、発展させたのが『日本小文典』Arte breue da Lingoa Iapoa(1620、マカオ刊)で、『日本大文典』の利用に際しては同書を参照する必要がある。イギリスのクロフォード家およびオックスフォード大学ボードレイ文庫におのおの一部が現存する。

[阿部健二]

『土井忠生訳『ロドリゲス日本大文典』(1955・三省堂)』『土井忠生・三橋健解説『日本大文典』(1976・勉誠社)』『福島邦道著『キリシタン資料と国語研究』(1973・笠間書院)』

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