Joseph Koshimi Yamagiwa. (1) A 62-folio section consisting of (a) the Rakuyōshū proper, which is a listing of Chinese-Japanese characters (kanji 漢字) and compounds arranged in terms of their on 音pronunciation, that is, the pronunciations borrowed into Japanese from Chinese, (b) a list of the characters used in writing the numbers, and (c) some errata; (2) a 27-folio section consisting of (a) the "Irohajishū 色葉字集," which is a listing of kanji and compounds arranged in terms of their kun 訓 pronunciations, that is, the pronunciations of the Japanese words represented by the Chinese characters, (b) some errata, (c) a listing of the names of one hundred Japanese government offices together with their Chinese equivalents, and (d) a listing of the sixty-odd provinces of Japan; and (3) a 19-folio section consisting of (a) the "Shōgyokuhen 小玉篇," which is a listing of kanji in terms of 105 "radicals," and (b) some errata. Part (I), entitled the Rakuyōshū, gives Chinese on readings of kanji and kanji compounds. It includes nearly 1,700 main character entries (boji 母字 "mother character; head character") with approximately 12,000 run-on entries of multi-character compounds (jukuji 熟字 "compound; idiom; phrase"). Part (2), the Irohajishū ("Iroha-ordered character collection"), gives the equivalent Japanese kun readings of kanji. It is less than half the size of (1) and only gives about one-fourth as many kanji compounds, around 3,000. The Irohajishū frequently lists graphic variants that have homophonous kun readings, for instance, defining hō 芳 "fragrance; aroma", fun 芬 "sweet smell; fragrance; perfume", and kō 香 "scent; aroma; fragrance; incense" as Japanese kōbashii "nice-smelling; savory; aromatic; fragrant; favorable". This part includes two appendices: the Hyakkan narabi ni Tōmyō no taigai (百官並唐名之大概 "Outline of the hundred government offices and their Chinese equivalents") and the Nippon Rakujūyoshū (日本六十餘州 "The 60-odd provinces of Japan") gazetteer. Part (3), the Shōgokuhen (小玉篇 "Little Yupian"), classifies 2,366 characters, mostly from Parts (1) and (2), according to 105 (bushu 部首) "radicals" and gives their respective on and kun readings. The title and format follow the circa 543 CE Chinese Yupian ("Jade Chapters") dictionary, in analogy to the circa 1489 Wagokuhen ("Japanese Yupian"). The Shōgokuhen begins with an index that semantically classifies the radicals under 12 headings (mon 門 "gates") of tenmon (天文 "natural phenomena"), chiri (地理 "geographical features"), jinbutsu (人物 "human matters"), etc., and gives the radical numbers within the main text. Unlike previous Japanese dictionaries, this index also gives a