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• Ryukyuan languages
  ...ko language]], [[Yaeyama language]], and [[Yonaguni language]]. Along with Japanese, they form the Japonic family of languages. *Amami language:
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• Chinese language
  *''Japanese'': 中国語 ''(Chûgoku go)'' ...uages and dialects that can all be subsumed under the category of "Chinese language(s)."
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• Okajima Kanzan
  ...her of [[Chinese language]] and calligraphy, known for compiling the first Japanese dictionary of vernacular Chinese in [[1716]]. ...d up becoming a notable contributor to [[Ogyu Sorai|Ogyû Sorai's]] Chinese-language association. In [[1716]], he compiled the ''Tôwa san'yô'', a dictionary o
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• Nagasaki interpreters
  ...d interpreters) specialized in the translation & interpretation of [[Dutch language|Dutch]], while a category of ''Tô tsûji'' ("[[Tojin|Chinese]]" interprete ...u Sorai|Ogyû Sorai's]] Chinese-language society and who compiled the first Japanese dictionary of vernacular Chinese, is an oft-cited example.<ref>Rebeckah Cle
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• Tateishi Tokujuro
  *''Japanese'': [[立石]] 得十郎 ''(Tateishi Tokujuurou)'' ...[[1860]] as part of the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the US]].
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• Yonahasedo Tuyumya
  *''Japanese'': 與那覇世頭豊見親 ''(Yonahasedo Tuyumya)'' ...he had some twenty Miyako Islanders remain on Okinawa to study [[Okinawan language]].
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• Moriyama Einosuke
  *''Japanese'': [[森山]] 栄之助 ''(Moriyama Einosuke)'' ...gn relations interactions in the mid-1850s, especially in terms of foreign language translation and interpretation.
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• Samuel Wells Williams
  Samuel Wells Williams was the Chinese & Japanese interpreter and translator on [[Commodore Matthew Perry|Commodore Perry's]] ...issionary the mission met in Ryûkyû, are harshly critical of one another's language abilities, manner, and approach.
  2 KB (234 words) - 04:35, 14 November 2019
• Fudoki
  ==Language== ...notable linguistic hybrid seen in the ''Kojiki'', it contained interwoven Japanese when citing word-for-word or presenting poetry.
  3 KB (395 words) - 04:29, 2 November 2006
• Gaoquan Xingdun
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 高泉性潡 ''(Gāoquán Xìngdùn / Kôsen Shôton)'' ...have played a significant role in sparking Yoshiyasu's interest in Chinese language and culture, and initiating his training in it, though Gaoquan passed away
  1 KB (161 words) - 10:52, 18 June 2020
• James Hepburn
  ...oing it in Japan. The result was the ''Hepburn'' style of romanization of Japanese words. ...ides publishing the first Christian tract; also a Bible dictionary in that language. He was one of the founders of the Christian College, known as the Meiji Ga
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• Ito Kansai
  *''Japanese'': [[伊東]] 貫斎 ''(Itô Kansai)'' Itô Kansai was an English-language interpreter and translator who served the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in interac
  429 bytes (46 words) - 05:31, 1 May 2020
• Kuraoka Bunjiro
  ...a notable role in [[Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu|Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu's]] Chinese-language salon. ...saki]]-based Japanese family of hereditary [[Nagasaki interpreters|Chinese-language interpreters]], or the illegitimate son of a Nagasaki-based Chinese merchan
  1 KB (176 words) - 07:23, 19 June 2020
• Jeremias van Vliet
  ...translated into English in the 20th century, are among the chief European-language sources on the history of the kingdom and its capital city, and on the hist Van Vliet is said to have learned the Thai language quite quickly, and to have mingled among Siamese elites, Buddhist monks, an
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• Ezra Pound
  ...s today generally write that Pound's knowledge of Noh, and of the Japanese language, was minimal, and that the book contains numerous errors, misunderstandings
  1 KB (201 words) - 21:11, 9 April 2017
• Amamikyo
  ...弥姑 ''(Amamiko, Amamikyo; [[Amami language]]: Amamiku, Amamikyu; [[Okinawan language]]: Amanchu, Amamichu)'' ...oddess is often called Amamichu in the [[Okinawan language]]; in that same language, a person from Amami would be called ''Amaminchu''. "[https://ryukyushimpo.
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• Treaty of Shimoda
  The [[1855]] Treaty of Shimoda, also known as the Russo-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Amity, signed between the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] and [[ ...panese-language version. The Japanese were not given a copy of the Russian-language version of the document, but it was the Dutch which the Russians said would
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• Asadoya yunta
  *''Japanese'': 安里屋ユンタ ''(asadoya yunta)'' ...Islands]] which, in a version with lyrics in [[Japanese language|standard Japanese]], has become the most popular, or most widely-known Okinawan folk song.
  924 bytes (130 words) - 02:50, 27 October 2012
• Matteo Ricci
  ...y adopting the robes and manners of a Confucian official, studying Chinese language, [[Confucianism|Confucian]] teachings, and so forth, rather than more stubb ...ng Christianity in classical Chinese.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 156.</
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• Higa Shuncho
  *''Japanese'': [[比嘉]]春潮 ''(Higa Shunchou)'' ...the compilation of the ''Okinawa-go jiten'' ("Dictionary of the [[Okinawan language]]"), and produced a survey of the University of Hawaii's Sakamaki-Hawley Co
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