A new study draws on a rigorous analysis of the Corpus of Historical Japanese to trace the semantic evolution of the verb "kikoyu" from the 8th century to the 20th century. This verb, which initially ...

Kyokusanjin (1834) Kosankin-Gorō Kanamajiri-musume-setsuyō, vol. 3, Part 3, folio 18 verso, held by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Through this case, the study ...