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- From: mdonovan@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU
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- Subject: references for personal and place names
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:05:41 GMT
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- In dealing with Japanese personal and place names the most
- important thing to resolve is whether one wants to look
- up what the possible reading(s) is/are or whether one wants
- to identify the particular reading of a particular person
- or place. The works cited previously on this list will
- be very helpful for the first task, primarily as a guide for
- educated guessing. For the second, however,
- you would need more extensive reference sources.
- In the case of people's names: first determine who the
- person is by occupation or time period, etc. and then
- look in specific reference books. For example, if the person
- is a contemporary and is a professor at a Japanese university
- then you can look in Kenkyusha Kenkyu Kadai Soran. Or, if
- the person is an author of a book you can check the NIhon Shoseki
- Somokuroku or Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Tenkyoroku or
- Chosakuken Daicho.
-
- Since none of these sources is cheap, one method many people
- use is to use O'Neill or other one volume sources to make
- guesses and later go to a library to verify the readings.
-
- Maureen Donovan
- Japanese Studies Librarian
- Ohio State University Libraries
-