Index of Subjects and Places
Acrolect
426
Aesop’s Fables
173, 191, 391
Ainu (people)
25, 178, 181
Airship/sloop
118, 278
Akita Prefecture
117, 323
Akita ranga
117, 371
Allolect
427
Alveolar liquids
216–217, 333
Amakusa
155, 391
Amaterasu, sun goddess
238
American Civil War
201
Amoy/Xiamen
213–214
Analects of Confucius
225
Anatomy. see Medicine; Anatomy
Annunciation to the Virgin Mary
224
Anticipatory replication
333
Asiatic Society of Japan
1–2, 141n104, 198–199, 201, 418, 420
Astronomy
52, 67, 79, 95, 140, 146, 175, 255, 268, 269, 275, 289, 307, 345–347, 364–365
Bakufu (shogunal administration)
9, 31, 34, 49, 59, 97n21, 99, 106, 139, 143, 146, 184, 187, 198, 262, 280, 281n56, 283, 296, 303
Censorship
8, 72, 269, 410
Order to learn other languages
43, 150, 183, 186, 188–189, 196, 398
Reports from the Dutch
138, 281, 285, 292, 302
Seals on books
199n108, 200n112
Bakumatsu (final years of the Edo period)
404
Bansha no goku (‘Gaoling of the Society for Barbarian Studies’)
146, 299, 303
Bansho shirabesho (‘Bureau for the Investigation of Barbarian books’)
2n4, 78n74, 111, 193, 198, 281–282, 284, 303, 407n10, 409n12, 410–411
Seals on books
151, 172, 195n92, 195n94, 199
Bansho wage goyō (‘Office for the Translation of Barbarian books’)
61, 111, 186, 269, 278, 282, 285, 291, 302–303, 400, 410
Batavia (now Jakarta)
28, 30, 36, 41n62, 96n10, 97, 99, 100, 111, 135, 137, 159, 163, 174, 175, 178, 197, 230, 231, 261, 281, 282, 285n62, 416
Batavian Republic (1795–1806)
30, 126
Bateren tsuihō no fumi (‘Edict on the Expulsion of the Padres’)
156n9
Belgian constitution
419
Belgium
8, 276, 415–416, 419–420
Betsudan fūsetsugaki (‘Special [Dutch] Book of Rumours’)
9, 13, 31, 281, 285, 299, 302
Bible
7, 143, 256, 296, 414
Bibles, sealed in barrels
142, 428
Bibliolect, Dutch as a
147
Bon, Buddhist festival of the dead
243
Boshin War (1868–69)
303n81
Botany
36, 52, 103, 120, 144, 157, 255, 268, 327, 334–338, 352, 427
Brussels
21
Buddhism
223, 236, 296
Buddhist monks
113n51, 237
Buddhist priests
57
Bugyō (Governor of Nagasaki)
19, 27, 34, 50n15, 78, 96n11, 97n21, 103, 158, 164, 210, 211, 223, 224, 239, 240, 242, 281, 282, 285
Censor’s office
187n79, 195n94, 200n112
Hybrid words
240
Interpreters
25, 47, 49, 50, 55–57, 158, 162
Kainoshō Masanobu
261
Kusakabe Hirosada
265
Kuze Hirotami
55
Tsutsui Masanori
92, 282
Bunkindō (Nagasaki printing house)
125
Calvinism
242, 428
Camel, depiction of
125
Cape Colony
38, 93
Ceramics with Dutch inscriptions
90, 115, 127
Ceylon
41n62, 160
Chemistry
13, 64, 139, 140, 146, 268, 273–274, 294, 304, 315, 319–322, 327, 338–342, 352–353, 355–358, 426
China
11n13, 17, 29, 176, 188–189, 213–214, 264, 272n37, 281n53, 302–303, 307, 351, 375–377
Chinsura, Bengal
72, 101, 166, 189, 207, 225n36, 226
Christianity
19, 23, 68, 143, 155–157, 159, 165–166, 172, 176, 198, 224, 257n3, 283, 296, 414
‘Clipping’
349, 374–375, 393
Coffee
214, 316, 325, 342–343, 354, 373, 380, 393
Coins
Chinese
225n36, 144
European
128, 144, 166, 190, 320
Japanese
30, 72, 144, 217, 229, 253, 391
Comprador
127, 162, 211, 400, 426
Convention of Kanagawa
1, 31, 150, 183, 195, 396, 403, 415, 422
Copernican theory of heliocentrism
132, 274, 275
Copper
Export of
28, 92–93, 145
Production of
117n63
Refinery
94n8, 145
Cryptolect, Dutch as a
52, 428
Daigaku Nankō (‘university southern school’)
184
Seal of
195n93, 195n94
Daikan (Nagasaki magistrates)
145
Declination tables
131, 275
Delft
18
Denmark
138, 416
Deshima
Drama group, Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
92, 122
Meaning of name
23–24
Printing on
105, 409
Dirigible balloon
115
Discourse strategy
12, 204–205, 207, 209, 218, 222, 235, 243, 247, 252, 327
Dutch Cemetery, Mt. Inasa
90, 128–129
Dutch Code of Civil Procedure
296, 298
Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC)
Dissolution
16, 30
Establishment
16
Ships (VOC until 1799)
Breskens
28
Castricum
23
Griffioen (‘Griffin’)
20, 21
Huis ter Spijk
129
Joän
399
Liefde (‘Love’)
5, 9, 18–20, 27, 34, 100, 130, 151, 155, 195, 219, 355, 371, 425
Peperbaal (‘Pepper Sack’)
28
Rode Leeuw met Pylen (‘Red Lion with Arrows’)
20
Soembing
406
Sperwer (‘Sparrow Hawk’)
27
Dutch language
Japanese proficiency in
10, 34, 44, 53n23, 55, 58, 78, 81, 87, 92–95, 103, 105, 154, 404
Morphology
206, 236, 247–252, 254, 318
Orthography
64, 103, 115, 123, 127, 146, 179–180, 206, 211, 216, 218, 220, 401, 402, 407
Periodization
8
Phonological system
214–218
Pronunciation
51, 54, 60, 70, 85–86, 93, 103n36, 187, 192, 214–218, 234, 254, 285, 292, 351, 391, 399, 400
Syntax
102, 176–177, 292, 309, 311
World language
430
Edo (later Tokyo)
Kyōbashi
61
Momijiyama library
139–140
Nagasakiya
59, 61, 94, 319n12
Nihonbashi
59, 94, 127
Ryōkoku bashi
112
Edo sanpu. see hofreis
Emperor of Japan
27, 237–238, 242, 251
Emporiolect
15, 213, 425
Engineering terms
315, 347–348
English East India Company
18n6, 155, 158, 195–196
Epenthesis
135, 333, 375
Extensions, type of loanshift
242, 252, 310, 325, 355
Ezo/Ezochi (Hokkaido)
25, 67, 133, 178–180, 184, 186–187, 380, 398
Ferolect
165, 427
First Opium War (1839–42)
31, 143, 281, 303, 403
First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95)
377
Food and drink
14, 205, 233–234, 311, 327, 342–343, 368
‘Four gates’ (yottsu no kuchi)
25, 289
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1781–84)
30, 126
Franciscans
154
Fuchū
19, 126
Fukui City
339
Fukushima
122, 323, 370
Fukuyama seishikan
194
Fuqing diaspora
198
Futsugakujuku
193–194
Fuzhou/Foochow
213
Gairaigo (‘pure’ loanwords)
14, 161, 201, 290, 310, 312–314, 332–352, 374, 393–394, 430
‘Gap-filling’
12–13, 204–205, 220, 227–243, 247, 252–254, 327, 392–393
Germans (in general)
8, 17, 33, 34, 36, 38, 181–184
Goeree
18
goshuinsen (A trading ship authorized by the shogun)
20
Gothic script
54, 70, 391–392
Goto Islands
235, 323
‘graphic loans’
379–380
gravity, theory of
300
Habitus
290, 306, 389, 429
Haiku poetry
116, 153, 319, 355
Hakata
183n73, 215, 246, 324
Hakodate
187, 413
Hayafune
205, 235, 248
Hepburn romanization system
27, 180, 215, 218, 264, 333
Heteroglossia (Bakhtin)
120, 139, 148, 170, 294, 428
Heterosemia
120, 139
Hiden (‘secret transmission’)
298, 428
Hierarchy of borrowability
326
Hierolect
428
Hina matsuri, doll festival
238, 243
Hirado
5, 9, 10, 16, 18, 20–24, 25–28, 34, 46–47, 90, 96, 100, 108, 150, 151, 155, 158, 177, 196, 219, 248, 370, 371, 427
Dagregisters kept at
96–97, 147, 164, 207
Matsūra family and collection
140, 143, 145, 165, 167–168, 190, 286, 288, 292, 295
Rendered as Firando
138, 215, 216, 251
Hiragana-majiri
123, 283, 286, 290, 307
Hiroshima
194, 323
Hizen
112, 198, 216, 246, 260
Hofreis (Edo sanpu)
27–28, 29, 35, 41n62, 42, 48, 53, 55, 56–58, 72–73, 94, 96–98, 100, 106, 108, 112, 114, 116n58, 117, 122, 125–126, 127, 129–130, 141, 144, 152, 153, 156, 160, 176, 182, 207, 258, 260, 262, 282, 285, 288
Code switching on
212, 216, 221, 222, 223, 224, 231, 232, 233, 235, 238, 240, 246, 248
Hokkaido. see Ezo/Ezochi
Horses and horsemanship
265
Hybrid words/creations
319, 325, 368–372
Ibaraki Prefecture
323
Igakkan school of Dutch medicine
6, 63, 269n30
Ihara County, Shizuoka Prefecture
323
Interpreters (general, for individual interpreters, see Index of Japanese and Chinese Names)
10, 12, 22, 25, 27n37, 29, 30, 32, 35, 39, 46–48, 50–53, 55–56, 57–58, 59, 60, 69–70, 73–74, 78. 82, 86–87
Grades of interpreter
49, 241
Keikotsūji (‘apprentice interpreter’)
49, 50
Kotsūji (‘junior interpreter’)
44, 49, 59, 164, 241
Naitsūji
49n8, 50, 94, 160
Nenban tsūji. rapporteurtolk (‘annual duty interpreter’)
164n28, 241n66
Ōtsūji (‘senior interpreter’)
49, 50, 59, 69–70, 241
Tsūji nakama ‘Interpreters’ Guild’ (Dutch: tolkencollege)
49, 51, 241, 400.
Intra-Asian trade
28, 40–41
Iōjima
212, 218
Iroha-sequence
69, 78, 82, 87, 160, 180, 197, 297
Italy
137, 266, 416
Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture
322
Japanese language
De aru
385–386, 388, 389
Dialects
14, 92n4, 214, 310, 312, 313, 316, 322–324, 332, 339, 342n44, 375, 386, 394
Grammar
32, 81, 82–83, 87, 154, 291, 304, 305, 380–389, 394, 401–402, 406–407, 420
Grammatical terms derived from Dutch
81, 83, 87, 304, 332, 358–360, 376–377, 379
Honorific titles and suffixes
143n109, 163, 216, 218, 232, 238–239
Middle Japanese
333n30
Modern Japanese
55, 91, 139, 214, 215, 234, 246, 253, 304, 312, 322n15, 358, 364n63, 384, 387, 389, 394
Nagasaki dialect
3, 70, 91, 92, 161, 173, 310, 315, 318, 322, 350, 368, 394, 399, 426, 427
Ni-yotte
305, 311, 382–385, 388, 389, 394
No-adjectives
374–375, 393
Old Japanese
37, 119, 333n30, 381
Periodization of
91n4, 246, 312n4, 322n15
Phonology
60, 80, 102, 111, 113n52, 133, 214–218, 279, 291, 310, 314, 333n31
‘Pseudo’-pronouns
311, 387
Syntax
14, 292, 309, 311, 388, 394
Tokoro-no
305, 311, 381–382, 389
Writing system
80, 176, 234, 311, 389–392
Yori (particle)
387
Javasche Courant
111, 282, 410
Jesuits
24n29, 28, 113n51, 144–145, 162, 215, 216, 257n5, 281n53, 390, 391
Junks
20, 22, 42, 213, 221, 224, 248, 249, 250, 251, 280
Kagoshima
154, 368
Kaisei gakkō
303n81
Kaiseijo
151, 184, 193, 195, 199, 303n81
Seal of
194n90, 195n94, 199n108, 200n112, 407n10, 409n12, 411
Kakegawa
129–130
Kakejiku (silk hanging scrolls)
112, 116, 122
Kamperduin, Battle of (1797)
126
Kana Club
390
Kangaku
44n1
Kāngxī dictionary (Kāngxī Zìdiǎn)
74
Kāngxī Emperor (Qing dynasty, ruled 1662–1722)
74
Kanoashi County, Shimane Prefecture
371
Kansai region
342n44, 354
Kanzaki
236
Kasuparuryū (‘the school of Caspar’)
35, 48, 58–59, 258–259
Katakana-majiri
290, 307
Kawanobe County, Akita Prefecture
323
Kawaramachi, Osaka
63
Keiō University (Keiō Gijuku Daigaku)
65, 412
Kobe City Museum
2, 126
Kōmō zashiki (‘the Dutch (lit. ‘red-haired’) mat-room’)
60, 86
Konpura-bin
127, 130, 233
Konpura nakama
211
Konshugo
352n57
Korea/Joseon
25, 27, 138, 177–178, 246, 378–380
Kuchi wordlists
69, 160
Kuril Islands
186, 188, 192
Kyōka verse
319n12
Kyoto
27, 69n57, 73, 83, 91n4, 94n8, 112, 126n81, 151, 153, 237–238, 242, 251, 259, 301, 321, 354, 418
University
69,168n36, 259n8
Lacquerwork
126, 130, 148
Language competition
11–12, 43, 149, 150–151, 177, 202, 389, 398, 422, 425, 429
Language contact
4, 5, 11–12, 150–203, 204, 205, 206, 208, 243, 252, 254, 255, 381, 394, 396, 429
Language of Wider Communication (LWC)
Dutch
12, 15, 82, 105, 150, 396, 406, 414, 416, 420, 422
English
411
Malay
173
Portuguese
19, 22, 28, 41, 43, 155, 159, 160
Languages (excluding varieties of Dutch and Japanese)
Ainu
3, 151, 178–181, 202, 380
Arabic
128, 161n20, 320, 429
Frisian
132, 233
German
12, 15, 33, 36, 38, 39, 62, 63, 64, 68, 74, 82, 95, 99, 100, 106n41, 114, 117n64, 128, 163n26, 178, 180–184, 194, 197n101, 199, 201, 261, 267, 269n31, 270, 279, 310, 313, 318, 319, 320, 417, 418, 420, 421–423, 427, 429
Bansho shirabesho
411
Loanwords
336, 342, 347, 349, 354, 374, 395, 396, 398, 402, 403
Toponyms
134–135, 276
Greek
15, 107, 173, 204, 213, 219n27, 224, 403
Hindi
202n114
Javanese
175, 213, 214, 230, 231
Korean
11n13, 12, 14, 107, 138, 151, 177–178
Borrowings from Japanese
305, 311, 349n52, 351, 376n75, 378–380, 394, 426
Hangeul
177–178, 378n77
Hanja
177, 351
Latin
30, 34, 46, 68, 75, 77n72, 81, 84, 86, 87, 95, 100, 109, 120–121, 122, 128, 158, 159, 249–250, 259, 265, 279, 288, 294, 295, 296
Books written in
39, 52n21, 54, 63, 64, 99, 140, 259, 263, 264, 271n34, 272, 274, 279, 285n63, 294, 300
Code switching
12, 39, 61, 204, 207, 208–210, 219–220, 223–224, 226
Contact language
12, 162–173
Dictionaries
71, 72, 141, 144, 155, 194, 288, 402, 410
Loanwords
172–173, 247, 315n7, 319–320, 335–337, 341, 345, 349, 350, 351, 356, 367
Names given to Japanese
108, 148, 170–172
Shizuki Tadao
288–289, 293, 295, 427
Toponyms
125, 130, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 188, 196n98, 197, 266, 320
Malay
22, 107, 109n45
Code switching
12, 57n29, 90, 213, 214, 230, 231, 232, 400
Contact language
12, 150, 173–175, 425, 429
Dictionaries
174, 402
Loanwords
119, 174, 336
Low Malay
41, 159, 174, 203
LWC in East Asia
173
Manchu
188–189, 202
Pali
107
Persian/Farsi
202n114, 214, 232
Portuguese
22–23, 28, 34, 52, 131, 138–139, 156, 157, 158, 196, 222, 258, 260, 261, 262, 292, 305, 416, 417
Books
139, 157, 163
Code switching
91, 210–212, 230–232, 249, 250
Contact language
10, 19, 150, 154–162, 202–203
Dictionaries
75, 155, 163, 182
Interpreters
19, 22, 25, 47–48, 50, 51, 155–160, 260
Loanwords
44n1, 110, 119, 124, 127, 163, 167, 173n52, 222, 223n33, 230, 231, 266, 288, 313, 315n7, 319, 320, 323, 325, 335, 336, 337, 339, 345, 346, 348, 350, 355, 368, 374, 380, 399, 414
Low Portuguese
41, 159, 160, 203
LWC in East Asia
22, 43, 160
Maps
130, 138, 155, 216n23
Orthography
115, 216, 238
Persistence of
160–162
Wordlists
35, 68, 69, 87, 90, 156, 160, 258, 259
Russian
Contact language
184–189, 429
Dictionaries/vocabularies
186, 187–188
Interpreters learning
30, 43, 150, 186, 187, 189, 191, 196, 202, 398
Loanwords
188
Translations
187, 269
Sinitic varieties
150, 198, 251
Books written in
260, 273, 343, 355n58
Code switching
212–214, 253, 425
Contact languages
175–177, 202, 203, 206
Kanbun
11, 119, 149, 168, 173, 175, 283, 286, 289, 307, 377, 381, 389
Loanwords
313, 351n54, 375–378
Taiwanese Hokkien or Minnan
212, 214, 233, 377–378
Vernacular Sinitic
150, 213n14
Wényán (Classical Chinese)
11, 175
Spanish, Castilian
127n82, 137, 155, 158, 162, 163, 173n52, 210n9, 211, 212, 313, 335, 339, 374, 414, 429
Tamil
214
Urdu
202n114
Leiden University
29, 32, 141, 163, 209, 309, 407, 420
Library
7, 46, 84n83, 84n84, 98n24, 99n25, 103n38, 137, 147, 170, 178, 197n101, 231n49, 237n55, 237n56, 240n61, 246n72, 315n6, 316n9, 327, 409n15
Lexical contact phenomena, typology for
14, 253, 310, 313, 324–326
Lexical interference
9, 12, 25, 154, 204–254
Linguifer
165, 305, 427, 428
Lists of (Book) Requests
145, 183
Loanblends
324, 325, 332, 352–355, 363
Loanshifts
325
Extensions
242, 310, 325, 355
Loan translations
14, 121, 241, 243, 267, 290, 310, 312–313. 325, 326, 327, 332, 355–366, 374, 378, 379, 426, 430
‘London Atlas’
399
Maatschappij tot nut van ’t algemeen (‘Society for Public Welfare’)
64, 407
Macau
23n26
Materia medica/honzō
53n22, 121, 169–170, 182, 260, 267, 307.
pharmacognosy/honzōgaku
Mathematics
140, 185, 343, 364
Matsumae domain (han)
25, 184
Matsushiro domain (han)
140
Medicine
Anatomy
54, 63, 70, 157, 255, 263, 267, 286, 290, 296, 310, 313, 326, 360–363, 377, 425
Chinese medicine
48, 59, 175, 258, 267, 296, 298, 306
Dutch surgeons and physicians
256, 258, 285, 287, 306
German surgeons and physicians
36, 38, 181, 182, 256, 258–259.
separate entries in the Index of Non-Japanese and Non-Chinese Names
Hippocrates
116–117, 173
Japanese physicians
35, 39, 108, 163, 173, 223, 257, 258, 261.
separate entries in the Index of Japanese and Chinese Names
Loanwords
75, 110, 291, 325, 343–345, 353–354, 360, 363, 371, 376, 378–379
Western/Dutch medicine
6, 13, 35, 48, 59, 62, 63, 65, 66, 71, 146, 197, 257n4, 258, 261–262, 268, 269, 270, 271, 276, 279, 300, 303, 306, 418, 419
Meiji era
5, 7, 151, 183, 184, 201, 202, 270, 319, 320, 373, 374, 382, 384, 396, 404, 406, 416, 417–421, 422–424
Meiji Restoration (Meiji ishin)
15, 397, 411, 417, 423, 424
Meisho-chō ‘Title ledgers’
146, 401, 402, 407
Meshima
216
Metalect, Dutch as a
15, 52, 62, 86, 148, 300, 306, 427
Meteorology
79, 345
Metrology
229–231, 345–347
Misemono
125
Mishima Islands
28
Moluccas
160
Months, Japanese names for
152, 215–216, 219–222, 391
Mora
7, 333, 342n44
Morphosemantic transparency
14, 304, 326, 426
Morphotactic transparency
394
Mōrutsūji interpreters for a language used by the Mughals
201
Moscow
167
Muromachi period (1336–1573)
385n87
Muscovy
41
Nabeshima
Daimyō of
131n89, 140
Nabeshima-Saga Western book collection
140, 402
Nagasaki
Bugyō. See supra
Censors
143, 296, 401, 403, 407
Daikan
145
Kaisho
145, 242
Machidoshiyori
145, 242, 251n82
Nagoya
51n17, 165, 169, 283
Nakanojō, Gunma Prefecture
66
Nakatsu
78, 94, 106, 107
Nambu
28, 246
Nanjing
42, 249, 251, 252
Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland (1806–10)
30
Napoleonic Wars
30, 78
Narabayashiryū
59
Narutakijuku
39, 61–63, 67, 81n78, 91, 101n30, 269, 294
‘Native creations’
241, 324, 325, 366–373
Nesolect
162, 177, 213, 254, 427
New York
111, 201
Nisshūdō school for rangaku
63
Norimono
125, 224, 234, 235, 236, 249
Norm-/Stilinnovationen
389
Numazu
han
239
Military school
194, 199n108
‘Nuyts affair’
22, 96, 116
Ōita Prefecture
18n4, 323
Ojika County, Miyagi Prefecture
323
Oki Province
239
Okinawa Prefecture
368
Ōmura
162
Opperhoofd (head of Dutch factory)
10, 16, 19, 21–22, 25, 29–31, 37–38, 48n4, 155, 207, 208.
separate entries in the Index of Non-Japanese and Non-Chinese Names
Oranda fūsetsugaki (‘Dutch Book of Rumours’)
13, 31, 97, 148, 210, 281, 285, 299, 302, 320
Oranda megane
113, 325
Orandayuki
39, 57n29, 174, 214, 236, 253, 400
Oranda zashiki
59–60, 86
Orang-utan
119
Osaka
6, 7, 19, 27, 56, 63, 86, 94n8, 130, 136, 145, 151, 155, 212, 321, 342n44, 418, 419
University
65, 66
Tekijuku. see infra
Ōshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture
371
Otona
40, 55, 212, 239
Owari domain (han)
165, 172
Pancado
211
Papenberg (‘Papist mountain’)
108, 246–247
Penghu Islands
212
Perseverative replication
333
Phaeton incident
30, 103, 182, 186, 189, 191, 196, 397, 398, 400, 422
Pharmacognosy/honzōgaku
53n22, 121, 157, 260, 273, 300
Phonotactics
60, 133, 333
Physics
15, 33, 105, 139, 140, 146, 195, 268, 273–274, 289, 300, 304, 345–347, 364–365, 397, 407, 418, 421
Pidgin
153–154, 160
Plays
De Ongeduldige (‘The Impatient Person’)
92
Twee Jaagers en het Melkmeisje (‘The Two Hunters and the Milkmaid’)
92
Polilect
213
Polyphony/polifonia (Bakhtin)
148
Portugal
158, 416–417, 428
Potato
322, 323, 368, 370, 375, 380
Sweet
110
Prenasalization
37, 162, 163, 215, 218, 219, 221, 234, 237, 239, 253, 320n13, 350n53, 380n79
Printing at Nagasaki and Deshima
105–106, 123–125, 407–409
Proverbs
Dutch
54n25, 60, 78, 117
Greek
224
Japanese
152, 217, 224–226, 391
Latin
226
Prussia
1, 38, 417
Prussian blue
338
Qīngwén Jiàn (‘Mirror of Manchu’)
189
Ranga (‘Dutch-style art’)
112, 117, 371
Rangaku (‘Dutch studies’)
Definition
10, 44n1, 69, 95, 121
Shijuku. See infra
Republic of Letters
143, 292, 295
Rinpa school of art
116
Rishiri Island, Hokkaido
398
‘Robinson Crusoe’
283, 286
Rōmaji
14, 30, 99, 110, 113, 115, 117, 122, 123, 125, 127, 137, 145, 148, 152, 155n6, 179–181, 197, 208, 224–226, 239, 389–392, 395, 427
Rōmaji Club
390
Rōnin
240, 413
Royal Society of London
29
Russia
133–134, 135, 145, 184–188, 275, 415
Toponym
133, 134, 135
Russian ships
Diana
186, 400
Nadezhda
186, 397, 398
Pallada
188
Ryū (school of thought)
58–59
Ryūkyū kingdom
25
Saga (Western Kyushu)
140, 216n22, 371
Sakai, copper refinery
114n8
Sakana, food taken with sake
233, 248
Sake, Japanese rice wine
59, 90, 127, 227, 233, 248, 267
Sakhalin
188, 192
Sakoku
25, 289, 305, 367, 398, 430
Sakoku-ron
289, 292, 298
Samisen, three-stringed Japanese guitar
227, 228
Sannichisai, Japanese festival
243
Satsuma domain (han)
25, 57, 65, 94, 391
Scandinavians (in general)
8, 33, 38, 184
Seafaring terms
326–327, 347
Seimikyoku
151, 183, 321
Sekku, seasonal festival
243
‘Semantic loanwords’
377
Semiophore
393
Sendai domain (han)
6, 63, 86, 125, 269
Servants and slaves
10, 17, 40, 41, 42, 114, 156, 159, 160, 174, 203, 232, 249
Japanese servants
47, 93–94, 400
Shamutsūji, Thai interpreters
201
Shichirigahama beach
113
shijuku for rangaku
10, 61–67, 86, 95
Shimabara Rebellion (1637/8)
23, 156, 346n46
Shimane Prefecture
323, 371
Shimonoseki
106–107, 108
Shinshū (Nagano)
323
Shintō
237
Shirandō
61, 75, 86, 95
Shōhyaku-sha
165
Shōsendō
63
Siam
416
‘Siebold affair’ (1829)
302–303
Silk trade
28, 211, 249, 251
sō, Japanese wind instrument
227
soya
127, 233
Spanish (people)
20, 155, 162, 173, 280
Spielerei
90, 111–112
Sukagawa
122
Sunpu
20, 232
Syphilis, Treatment of
288
Systeminnovationen
389
Taishō era (1912–25)
201, 374
Taiwan/Formosa
3, 21, 22, 27, 28, 35, 36, 42, 96, 116, 181, 212, 375, 377–378, 429
Takaboko Island
246
Tanabata matsuri/Hoshi matsuri ‘Star festival’
243
Tartary
41
Tatsuridō
193
Tayū
400n4
Tea
233, 234, 249
Tekijuku
6, 10, 61, 63–66, 87, 141, 197, 269–270
Ten-chi-jin sequence of Chinese reference works192–
193, 197, 297
Tenmondai (‘Bureau of Astronomy’)
83, 138, 139, 186, 189, 269, 420
Thalassolect
213, 425
The Brothers (British ship)
197
‘The Nagasaki Express’
198
‘The observer’s paradox’
206
Thuralect
35, 403, 409, 422, 427
Tōhoku
67
Tōkaidō
27, 129–130
Tokyo
1, 6, 18, 19, 32, 184, 193, 195n93, 197, 198, 201, 313, 371–372, 396, 418, 420–421.
Edo
Dialect
342n44
National Diet Library
111
Tokyo Station
372
Tokyo University
184, 197, 199n108, 303n81, 411
Yaesu-
371–372
Tonkintsūji, Vietnamese interpreters
201
Tō-on
291
Topolect
162, 177, 213, 254, 427
Toponyms
11
Japanese
137, 166, 206, 212, 214–218, 243–247, 371–372
Outside Japan
89, 109, 128, 130, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137–139, 148, 155, 166–167, 173, 213, 276
Toshimaya/Tomishimaya
123, 125
Total morphemic integration
253, 322, 324, 332
Tsushima domain (han)
25, 177–178
Ueno collection and catalogue
1–2, 105–106, 143, 145, 151, 172, 174, 183–184, 187, 194–195, 199–201, 407n10, 408n11, 409n12, 409n14
Ukiyo-e
89, 112, 115, 127, 191
Uraga
19, 31
Uraga Bay
197
Valck globes
131n89, 265
Van der Pijl printing house, Dordrecht
409–410
Wagaku
44n1, 269n30
Waseda
University, Tokyo
413
University Library
7, 185, 263, 273, 307n84
Washington D.C.
201
Weaponry terms
347–348
‘Weekly Despatch’
399
Woodcuts
123–124
Yakunin
240, 415
Yamada
28
Yamato
180, 234
Yamato kotoba/wago
332
Yokohama
65, 105, 193, 209–210, 240, 323, 404, 405, 411, 412, 415–417
Asiatic Society of Japan
1, 198
Yoshidaryū
59
Zaison no rangaku (‘Study of Western learning in the countryside’)
66, 87, 301
Zēngdìng Qīngwén Jiàn (‘Revised and Enlarged Mirror of Manchu’)
189
Zhoushan
213
Zodiac signs and constellations
365, 367–368
Zūfu Haruma
64, 65, 74, 79, 82, 87, 153, 191, 298, 304, 385, 386