Fuzanbou Co., Ltd. - Fuzanbou

Japanese: 冨山房[株] - ふざんぼう

A publishing company founded in 1886 in Jinbocho, Kanda, Tokyo, by Sakamoto Kajima. From the beginning, it was known for its large-scale publications of high quality, and marked an era with its large-format dictionaries. It began by buying and selling used books and acting as an intermediary for Western books, but on the side it also published Amano Tameyuki's Principles of Economics (1886), which was well-received for its easy-to-read nature. It was followed by Amano Tameyuki's History of the World and Maebashi Takayoshi's Geography of Japan, which were adopted as secondary school textbooks and became pioneers in the field. On the other hand, the company devoted itself to dictionaries, including Yoshida Togo's Great Japanese Place Name Dictionary, seven volumes (1900-07), and Haga Yaichi and Shimoda Jiro's Japanese Home Encyclopedia, two volumes (1906).It also achieved success with such works as the Great Japanese Language Dictionary, five volumes (1915-28) co-authored by Ueda Mannen and Matsui Kanji, the Great Genkai, five volumes (1932-37) by Otsuki Fumihiko, and the National Encyclopedia, 12 volumes (1934-37), solidifying its reputation as a dictionary publisher.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1886年坂本嘉治馬によって東京神田神保町に創業された出版社。当初から質の高い大出版で知られ，大型の辞典で一時代を画した。古書の売買と洋書の取次販売から始めたが，そのかたわら天野為之《経済原論》(1886)を出版，読みやすさで好評を博した。ついで天野為之《万国歴史》，前橋孝義《日本地理》などを続刊，中等教科書に採用され，この分野の先駆となる。他方，吉田東伍《大日本地名辞書》全7巻(1900‐07)，芳賀矢一･下田次郎編《日本家庭百科事彙》全2巻(1906)などをはじめとする辞典類に力を注ぎ，上田万年･松井簡治共著《大日本国語辞典》全5巻(1915‐28)，大槻文彦著《大言海》全5巻(1932‐37)，《国民百科大辞典》全12巻(1934‐37)などで成功をおさめて辞典出版社としての名声を不動のものとした。

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