Welcome to Mojikyo World

•  Mojikyo is a dictionary mainly of Chinese Characters, with a free font set of about 110,000 characters and an input program. 

• Contents of the Mojikyo Font Set
  The "Konjaku-Mojikyo", includes about 20,000 Chinese characters defined by Unicode (ISO 10646), and about 50,000 Chinese characters collected in the "Dai Kanwa Dictionary" by Professor Morohashi. 
  Moreover, we have collected many other characters for the Mojikyo such as Oracle Bone inscription, Siddham (Sanskrit) characters, Japanese Kana , Chu Nom (Their original character used in Vietnam medieval times.) , Shui Script (The character which the Chinese ethnic minority is using.) , Tangut (Xixia) Script , symbols and so forth. 

• Fonts and Tools supplied in this Web Site

  • A Character Map which can work on Windows95 or later, and WindowsNT3.51 or later.

  • Font files are defined according to "Japanese Shift JIS format". When you use Mojikyo on Windows2000, install "Japanese Support" in Option Install of your OS, and change "Locale" to Japanese.

  • When you use these fonts on Windows95 or later, and WindowsNT3.51 or later other than Windows Japanese version, you must install "Japanese Support System" distributed freely for Internet Explorer by Microsoft.
    Most people reading this page may do so.

  • To use with Macintosh, you must install Japanese Language Kit as these font files are defined according to Japanese Shift JIS format. If it is MacOS 9, you can install Japanese Language Kit by OS Option Install.

  • About the use of software, please refer to documents in the archives or to the web site of Mojikyo Institute.

1. One is the commercial type. 
   This "Konjaku-Mojikyo", a type of software for inputting and searching for numerous fonts, has been developed by the AI-Net Corporation and is sold by Kinokuniya Company Ltd.
   Through the profits, this free version has been developed and the original software has been frequently revised.
   The commercial type is much more convenient for searching for characters and for finding information about the characters.
   However, the commercial type can work only on Japanese Windows, although it "may" work on English Windows2000, if "Locale" is set adequately.

2. The other is the free type.
   The fonts and tools freely available in the pages of "Mojikyo Institute" and this "Stanford University", can be used freely and are free of charge to anyone in the world. 
   However, when you want to use these fonts for commercial purposes (for example, to make and sell a Chinese dictionary or to write and sell a research paper, including those available on the web or in a CD-ROM) you must purchase at least one copy of Commercial type of the "Konjaku-Mojikyo".
   Moreover, it is prohibited to extract any fonts from the Mojikyo Character Map database by reverse engineering, and to use them for diverse purposes.
   It is also prohibited to produce another Font Set by reconstructing Mojikyo fonts and to redistribute it to others, whether or not it is free of charge.
   Mojikyo fonts must be used as they are in Mojikyo database.

Licensing documents of "Konjaku-Mojikyo" written in Chinese (BIG5/GB) ,  English ,French and Korean are here.

However, they are only for reference, and only Japanese licensing document is legally valid.

The Mojikyo Institute is continually increasing the fonts free of charge.

Suppose you are studying Taoism, and you meet a rare character in Taoist texts, what will you do if you cannot find it even in Mojikyo? 

In such case, please immediately become a Mojikyo Institute member, and report the character you met to us. (Membership is free.)

Upon receiving the report with evidence, Mojikyo Institute will produce the font and feed it to its Home Page for downloading.

• How to receive Mojikyo Institute membership
  Chinese (BIG5/GB) ,  English ,French and Korean

• How to report your character

• Mojikyo Institute Bulletin Vol. 2

• The Mojikyo Character Database in an international setting
  Christian Wittern , from Mojikyo Institute Bulletin Vol. 3 (Japanese)

• Mojikyo: An Indispensable Tool for the East Asian Textual Scholar of the 21st Century
  Charles Muller , from Mojikyo Institute Bulletin Vol. 3 (Japanese)

The subject;
Caution against the virus-containing e-mail messages which use the address of our institute illegally.

This type of worms sets up as its sender’s address any mail address it has randomly picked up from a computer it infected.

For instance, if our mail address has been registered in your computer’s address book, our address foo@mojikyo.gr.jp , bar@mojikyo.org might be used as the illegal sender’s address and then be transmitted to you , although we, the Mojikyo Institute, have *nothing* to do with the criminal sender.

Under these circumstances we are *not* to be held responsible for any kind of damage you may incur because of the criminal act of the unknown sender.

About Mirror Site

The original FONTS and TOOLS are fed into the web site of Mojikyo Institute in Japan.
And  now, you can down load these FONTS and TOOLS  from the Mirror Site server at Stanford University.
We are very thankful to the members of  The Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies who have so kindly cooperated with us to set up this site. 

Thanks

It is dependent on Mr. Roy Bryant's (SEVENtwentyfour Inc.) kindness that the link relation of our WebPages are kept normal.

Mojikyo Institute
17-3, 1-Chome, Okano, Nishiku, Yokohama, Japan
zip:220-0073