Shiotani Shigeki (ed.) A comparative study of Mongolian and Japanese proverbs

Osaka, 2004. — iv，153 p. — (Publications of Osaka University of Foreign Languages, 33). — ISBN 4900588334.塩谷茂樹. モンゴル語日本語ことわざ比較研究. — Монгол-Япон хэлний зүйр цэцэн үгийн харьцуулсан судалгаа. Mongolian proverbs are characterized not only by Ural-Altaic language family linguistic structure, form and concise expression, but also by moral ethics, geographic, ethnic, traditional nomadic and historical backgrounds of the Mongols. Therefore, comparative study of the Mongolian and Japanese proverbs founds on the most reliable linguistic sources such as the Secret History of the Mongols translated by Damdinsuren from Middle Mongolian into the modern Mongolian.