It was in the Sengoku Period that the following books were published: "Setsuyoshu" (a Japanese-language dictionary in iroha order) written by Soji MANJUYA, and "Ishotaizen" (The Complete Book of Medicine), a medical book in Ming's language, translated by ASAI no Sozui, who was a merchant in Sakai City and a physician.
饅頭屋宗二によるいろは順引きの国語辞典『節用集』、また堺市の商人・医師であった安佐井野宗瑞によって明版の医書『医書大全』が飜訳・刊行されたのも戦国期であった。