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380 Another important work by Rai Sanyo is the Nihon Seiki, a history of Japan in sixteen volumes.

Towards the end of the Yedo period there was a great falling off in the literary use of the Chinese language in Japan. At the present day it is employed only for a few special purposes similar to those for which Latin is still resorted to in Europe.