The hymnal
By: prepared by a union committee
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Keiseisha and Kyōbunkwan
Published: 1903
Place of publication: Tōkyō
Language: jpn
Number of pages: 450
Copyright date: 1903
Subjects: Japanese Hymns
Other titles: San bi ka; Japanese hymnal
Notes: Title from colophon.

Without music.

Contains 459 hymns, 6 doxologies, and 18 selections for chanting.

"The greater number of the hymns here brought together are taken with more or less modification from one or all of the three books: Shinsen Sambika (Congregational and Presbyterian), Kirisuto-kyō Seikashū (Methodist) and Kirisuto-kyō Sambika (Baptist) ... [Original Japanese hymns number] no fewer than one hundred and eleven"--P. 5 of last sequence.

"The division of the hymnal is into: first, a general body of hymns arranged in order under appropriate subjects; and second, a special section for tunes of a more difficult character or for the use of choirs; and third, a collection of doxologies and one of chants together with the Apostles' Creed and the Ten Commandments"--P.6 of last sequence.

Includes indexes.

Hymns, preface, and indexes in Japanese; colophon and additional preface and indexes in English. Each hymn has English caption and Scripture verse.