Talk:Dai Kan-Wa Jiten

message: Greetings.  I made a few minor changes to the current article on October 2, 2005: changed 辞 to original 辭 (ji's kyūji 旧字 form); corrected translation of title to more standard format; corrected number of volumes to thirteen; added "Pacific War".  I plan to contribute more to this article soon, such as sections related to the actual content of the volumes.  Until then...Jb05-crd 20:34, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your contributions to the article. At the moment, there are fourteen volumes plus one index, which is the same size as the volumes. When the book was originally published, it had twelve volumes, and two more volumes were published since then. If you don't believe this, please check the link on the bottom of the page, where there is a photo of the fourteen volumes and the index. Anyway, the number of volumes has varied, so it is a little confusing. Thanks again for the input, looking forward to your future contributions. --DannyWilde 04:55, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, the Taishukan web pages give 大漢和辞典. Can you give some justification for using the older form of the kanji? The Japanese version of this page also uses that kanji, not the old one. Since Taishukan are the publishers, I would think it would be better to use the new one. --DannyWilde 05:00, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Thanks for your very detailed comments. It is very difficult to sort out who knows what on Wikipedia, so please excuse my changing your edits. I don't have a copy of the dictionary. My information mostly comes from the reference cited, which goes into the production process of the dictionary (the subtitle of the book is "akuma no moji to tatakatta hitobito", if that means anything to you, and it describes the labours of the compiler and typographer of the dictionary. If the dictionary calls itself using the old version of the kanji, then that should be preferred, of course, but most of the above information certainly belongs in the main article. One quibble I have is that if the modern ji character is used by the publisher, it should also feature in the article somewhere. It would be most sensible to write an introduction to the article using your information. Can you try to do it or do you want me to rewrite it? --DannyWilde 04:45, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor changes

message: The opening line should give a better sense of the immense importance of this dictionary, and should include the name of Morohashi. For example, this is the opening line of the Heibonsha encyclopedia: 「諸橋轍次 (もろはしてつじ)(1883‐1982) の著になる代表的な漢和辞典。」(where “daihyôteki” means the “chief” or “most important”). Macron is consistently missing from Taishûkan. Japanese names should be in Japanese order (Morohashi Tetsuji, not Tetsuji Morohashi, etc). The bullet lists are best replaced by straight prose. On the whole, the article is too listy, and hard to follow. A good book to consult (and cite) is Kamada Takashi, Dai Kan-Wa jiten to waga kyūjūnen (Taishūkan Shoten, 2001). Jb05-Hds2 01:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed changes

message: I've added a wiki link to a small article I wrote about Morohashi Tetsuji.  Please feel free to expand that article with all relevant information about his person.  I also fixed the name order because of Wikipedia's Japanese style guidelines. --asmodai 11:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure you have, could you read the manual you quoted again and make sure? Thanks. DannyWilde 12:18, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Morohashi

message: This statement is now wrong: "Taishukan has not released an electronic Dai Kan-Wa Jiten edition."  They finally released one in November of 2018.--74.103.157.244 (talk) 06:33, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  digital version