英文摘要 |
Ritai Dacidian (A Japanese-Taiwanese Dictionary, 1907), the pioneer book of Chinese dialect contrast, is one of Naoyoshi Ogawa's Taiwanese dictionaries. The "Preface"(緒言) to the dictionary is not only an introduction, but research, because it includes abundant data about Chinese dialects, Taiwanese, and Japanese around the 19th century. In this article, the two main points within five sections are 1) discussing the question about whether the mid-ancient Chinese data that Ogawa has used came from "Yunjing"(韻鏡), and 2) discussing whether the four Romanization methods of Chinese dialects resulted in confusion. By observation, the main resource of mid-ancient Chinese sounds, declared by Ogawa to be the "Yunjing", might properly be known as "Hanwu Yintu"(漢吳音圖,1815), because Ogawa used many charts and Chinese characters that sounded the same as those in "Hanwu Yintu" instead of "Yunjing". In the other part of this article, it is also found that some contradictory situations in the "Preface" came from the mixture of four Romanization systems of Chinese dialects. |