参考書
Works that I consult
Modern works
The Oxford English Dictionary, second edition
Garner’s Modern English Usage by Bryan A. Garner (2016)
Farnsworth’s Classical English Style by Ward Farnsworth (2020)
A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting by Kenneth A. Adams
Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer (2019)
The Library of Congress Japanese Romanization Table
The SWET Japan Style Sheet
The Monumenta Nipponica Style Sheet
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism by Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Subtitling Concepts and Practices by Jorge Díaz Cintas & Aline Remael
Pre-WWII works of interest
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, first edition by Henry Watson Fowler (1926)
Commercial Correspondence by Ralph Starr Butler (1922)
The King’s English by H.W. and G.F. Fowler (1908)
The Reader Over Your Shoulder, first edition by Robert Graves (1943)
和洋訳書紹介
Books for Japanese and English study
A Diplomat in Japan by Ernest M. Satow
一外交官から見た明治維新[[あるいは塩尻清市訳「幕末維新囘想記」。]] 坂田精一訳
Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to Japan and Europe
特命全権大使米歐回覧実記 久米邦武編
Kinsei Shiriaku by Yamaguchi Ken, translated by Ernest M. Satow
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
源氏物語 紫式部著
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
クリスマス・カロル 森田草平訳
The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi translated by Eiichi Kiyooka
福翁自伝 福沢諭吉著
便利なウエブサイト
Useful websites
洋本: AbeBooks – perhaps the world’s best bookstore
日本語古書: 日本の古書屋 – used Japanese books
デジタル書籍: the Internet Archive – digital books, audio, etc.
デジタル古書: 国立国会図書館デジタルコレックション – scans of old Japanese texts
類語辞典: Weblio 類語辞典 – a thesaurus of Japanese
英英辞典: Dictionary by Merriam-Webster – when the ODE isn’t enough
英語由来辞典: Etymonline – the online etymology dictionary of English
英語類語辞典: Power Thesaurus – a crowdsourced English thesaurus
言葉推移表示: Google Books Ngram Viewer – for verifying usage
SWET: the Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators
ウェブ辞典検索: 広辞苑無料検索 – dictionaries galore