Re: iroha ordering

Ben Bullock said:

I know that the iroha ordering is used as a "first, second, third" ordering,
but has it ever really been used as an ordering of words in dictionaries? If
so, how were youon, dakuon and sokuon dealt with in the iroha ordering?

Thanks for any insight.


Looks like many of iroha dictionaries in Meiji period were ordered by
old setsuyoshu method:

1. iroha order of the first kana
2. number of kana
3. category

National Diet Library site has a lot of dictionaries of this kind, like
this Japanese-English dictionary (1887):

http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/BIImgFrame.php?JP_NUM=40083457&VOL_NUM=00000&KOMA=6&ITYPE=0



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