Kangxi Character Dictionary (reprint), a textbook of external characters used in the Official Gazette

The Kangxi Character Dictionary was the Chinese character dictionary compiled by the edict of Emperor Kangxi (reigned 1661-1722), an emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China, and was completed in 1716.
The Chinese characters are classified by radical index, and the reading, meaning, and examples of use are given in order of the number of brushstrokes. This style was succeeded by the Chinese-Japanese dictionary in Japan.
Typefaces were also considered a basic resource for type during the Meiji era, when letterpress printing became widespread in Japan.
This collection is a reprint of the Kangxi Character Dictionary, a Japanese-style binding book consisting of 14 volumes, including 12 volumes of the main text, a preface, and a supplementary notes volume, and comes with a wooden box for storage.
This was used as a reference material to create original drawings of Chinese characters (kanji) not included in the list of kanji for common use (external characters), which were used in the Official Gazette and the products for the Diet, such as the minutes, printed by the National Printing Bureau during the Showa and early Heisei eras.