Draft:Eiwa taiyaku shūchin jisho

Eiwa-Taiyaku-Shuchin-Jisho[1] ("A Pocket Dictionary of the English and Japanese Language") was the first English-Japanese dictionary, written by Tatsunosuke Hori in 1862 and published by the Bansho Shirabesho (Institute for the Study of Barbarian Books).

The significance of this dictionary for the rapid modernization/industrialization of Japan during the Meiji era is discussed in "Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution": "This project was the first step in what would become a massive government effort to codify and absorb Western science."[2]

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  1. ^ "Eiwa Taiyaku Shuchin Jisho (A Pocket Dictionary of the English and Japanese Language)".
  2. ^ Juhász, Réka; Sakabe, Shogo; Weinstein, David (2024). "Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution". National Bureau of Economic Research: 6. doi:10.3386/w32667.