Author: Hashizume Kan'ichi.
Title: [Sekai Shobai Orai - literally World Trade Traffic].
Description: Tokyo 1873 [Meiji 6]. 180x120mm publisher's wrapper (title label gone, titled in manuscript on the front cover); 26 double folded leaves; one full page and numerous small illustrations throughout. ¶ Second edition? - first published in 1871 - of this handy bilingual vocabulary of world trade giving the English, with Japanese explanations, of a wide range of terms, place names, goods, and so on. Hashizume, who specialised in handbooks on trade and on foreign languages, produced, I think, three of these guides for merchants with similar titles. This is the first and the next two supplement this.

Keywords: social sciences economics language linguistics dictionaries vocabulary c19th Japan progress trade Asia reform meiji