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JAPANESE

HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL

DICTIONARY

UP TO THE END OF THE 1800's

REVISED AND EDITED BY

BERNARD F. MC MAHON, SR.

ORIGINALLY CREATED BY: E. PAPINOT

in 1909 - Yokohama, Japan.

Edited, Re-Written, And Updated - By

BERNARD F. MC MAHON, Sr. - 1996

The author - - a student of the Japanese Language and the History of Japan

for more than 50 years starting at Columbia University in the 1940's.

COPYRIGHT 1996 BY COLUMBIA PUBLISHING COMPANY

(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) ISBN: 0-944005-26-x

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUE CARD NUMBER 96-73862

NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION, "JAPANESE HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY", MAY BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL, INCLUDING PHOTOCOPYING, RECORDING OR BY ANY INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR, EXCEPT THE INCLUSION OF BRIEF QUOTATIONS IN A REVIEW.

MC MAHON FAMILY CREST (MON)

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NIHON-BASHI BRIDGE - IN THE 1200s (ED0) - - TOOKYOO's FORMER NAME

SOFTENING (NIGORI) IN SPEECH AND THE POSTPOSITION (NO)

The are no fixed rules in Japanese gramma for the euphonic softening (NIGORI) of some spoken syllables, - - - such as DA for TA, Go for KO, etc., and we may find in almost any book UKITA and UKIDA, TAKIKAWA and TAKIGAWA, ETC. The most common pronounciation has been followed. The postposition NO between the name and forename has been mostly omitted. Formerly in common use, it has been gradually dropped; thus we can say - - - MINATO NO YORITOMO or MINATO YORITOMO.

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