小幡篤次郎・甚三郎『英文熟語集』とウェブストル氏字典
1983 年 1984 巻 16 号 p. 77-89
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1983 年 1984 巻 16 号 p. 77-89
In 1868, English Idioms, the first dictionary of English idioms in Japan, was published. Though the editors, Tokujiro Obata and Jinzaburo Obata, mentioned in its preface the dictionaries that they used in the compilation of English Idioms, they did not specify the edition of Webster's dictionary. In this paper, the author compared the 1859 edition and the 1864 edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionaries, and drew a conclusion that it is the 1864 edition that Obata brothers used to compile their dictionary.
