A Brief History of Lexicography in Japan<BR><BR>

�@�@In Japan, lexicography, as an academic study of dictionaries, has a history covering three periods of more than a century. The first period extended for some fifteen years from 1885 to 1900. Fujioka published an admirable essay on lexicography in 1896. The second period (1925-1940) sees some enlightening 
essays on lexicography written by H. E. Palmer. And the third period (1965-) 
began almost with the publication of LEXICON, the first journal of lexicography in Japan. It is regrettable, however, that there has been no idea or tradition 
persisting throughout these periods because lexicography has been discussed 
independently in separate fields at different periods.