A Simplified Grammar of the Japanese Language (Modern Written Style): [1886]

by Basil Hall Chamberlain

Originally published in 1886. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1886

About the author

B. A. Chamberlain was a professor of Japanese at the Tokyo Imperial University and was one of the greatest European Japanologists, along with Ernest Mason Satow, Lafcadio Hearn, and William G. Ashton.

He arrived in Japan on the eve of June 1873, left for Geneva in 1911 where he lived until his death in 1935.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Are you having trouble keeping your early-to-mid Meiji Era conjugations straight?

OF COURSE YOU ARE. Let's be honest: early-to-mid Meiji Era conjugations are a dark and bewildering jungle full of scary animals that want to kill and eat you. Early-to-mid Meiji Era conjugations will not just sear your eyes and destroy your brain; they will actually burn your soul.

Nineteeth-century polymath-diplomat-cum-gentleman-scholar Basil Hall Chamberlain is here to help. At least, to the extent that he, or anyone, can. This book will not actually make things much easier, but it has some useful charts.