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Kojien
The Kōjien|広辞苑 is a kokugo dictionary. It is a large dictionary with 3,000 pages containing both modern and old Japanese words. The publisher is Iwanami shoten. It is a single-volume Japanese-Japanese dictionary. Like most Japanese dictionaries, the headwords are in hiragana, and the words are arranged in gojūon order.
It features a small number of illustrations (about one per page), and mini-biographies of notable people, as well as a kanji reference.
References
Kōjien, fifth edition, 1998, ISBN 4000801112, ISBN 4000801120 (large edition)
Kōjien, fourth edition, 1991, ISBN 4000801015