This project is based on a glossary published in the Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese Books in the British Library Printed before 1700, by Kenneth B Gardner, pages xxiii - xxxiv, revised by Yasuyo Ohtsuka 大塚靖代, Curator of Japanese collections at the British Library with the assistance of Yen-Chen Chu 朱晏禛, Graduate of the school of Museum Studies at the Leicester University.

Descriptive Cataloging Guidelines for Pre-Meiji Japanese Books