Nippon Seikōkwai Kitō Bun.
Transliterated by John Batchelor.
Yokohama: Printed for the Japan Mail Office, 1889.

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Introduction

This early Japanese liturgical publication is transliterated into romanized Japanese for use by Anglophone missionaries who were not yet fluent in normal written Japanese. Similar publications followed in 1916 and 1964.

John Batchelor (1854-1944) was a long-serving Anglican missionary in Japan whose primary work was among the Ainu people of Hokkaido. His translation of the Book of Common Prayer into Ainu is also available online.

David Griffiths identifies this translation as No. 67:2 in The Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1549-1999 (London: The British Library; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002); it is not mentioned in William Muss-Arnolt's Book of Common Prayer Among the Nations of the World (1914). It was digitized in January 2012 by Richard Mammana from a copy belonging to the late Thomas N. Rae.

MOKUROKU

Sō Tō Bun	1	The Order for Morning Prayer
Ban Tō Bun	17	The Order for Evening Prayer
Ritani	29	The Litany
Rinji Tō Bun	37	Prayers
Rinji Sha Bun	45	Thanksgivings
Nenchū Seijitsu Shuku Bun	49	Collects To Be Used Throughout the Year.
Sei-san Shiki	81	The Order for Holy Communion
Eiji Seisen Shiki	104	Publick Baptism of Infants
Eiji Seisen Jitaku Shikki	113	Private Baptism of Children
Sōnen Seisen Shiki	120	Baptism of those of Riper Years
Kōkwai Mondō	129	A Catechism
Kenshinrei Shiki	137	The Order of Confirmation
Kon-in Shiki	141	The Solemnization of Matrimony
Kanshibyō Bun	152	The Visitation of the Sick
Byōsha Seizan Shiki	167	The Communion of the Sick
Maisōrei Shiki	169	The Burial of the Dead
San Go Shaon Shiki	179	The Churching of Women
Dai Sai Shijitsu Sange Bun	183	A Commination
Atanashio Shinkyō	192	The Creed of S. Athanasius