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Boku in Edo Epistolary Texts

Reynolds, Katsue A. (Published by College of Languages, Linguistics ad Literature, University of Hawai'i, distributed by University of Hawaii Press, 2005)

This essay is about how boku, a first person pronoun or self-reference form for males, came into existence in Japanese. It appeared rather abruptly in Japanese around the time of the Meiji Restoration, and it has quickly ...