Tenrei Banshō Meigi
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Tenrei Banshō Meigi
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The Tenrei banshō meigi or Tenrei banshō myōgi is the oldest extant Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters. The title is also written 篆隷万象名義 with the modern graphic variant ban for ban. The prominent Heian period monk and scholar Kūkai, founder of the Shingon Buddhism, edited his Tenrei banshō meigi around 830–835 CE, and based it upon the Chinese Yupian dictionary. Among the Tang dynasty Chinese books that Kūkai brought back to Japan in 806 CE was an original edition Yupian and a copy of the
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Oldest extant Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters
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