simplification resulting in the signs used today. Instead of relying on just the signs kana kana today, the Japanese still use a mixed character-kana orthography though the number of Chinese characters have been limited in recent years. Bibliography Fukui Kyūzō (ed.), Kokugogaku taikei. 10 vols. Kokucho kankōkai, 1975 Go, Ping-gam. Understanding Kanji characters by their ancestral forms : learning Kanji through pictures. Simplex Publications, 2000 Habein, Yaeko Sato. University of Tokyo Press, The History of the Japanese Written Language. 1984 Hissamatsu Sen’ichi (ed.) 16 vols. Iwanami, 1973-9 Keichū zenshū. Kurano Kenji and Takeda Yūkichi (ed.), Kojiki (NKTB, vol.1). Iwanami, 1958 Mandel, Gabriel. Abbeville 2008 Japanese alphabet : the 48 essential characters. Miller, R.A. The Japanese Language. University of Chicago Press, 1967 Nakata Kazama shobō, Tōdaiji fujumonkō no kokugogakuteki kenkyū (kaitei shinpan). 1979 Shin’ichi and Kimura Akira (ed.), Kyūko shoin Kanamoji-zukai. Ōtomo Sakamoto Tarō et al. (ed.), shoki (NKTB, vol.67-8) Iwanami, 1965 Seeley, C., A History Of Writing In Japan. University of Hawai’i Press, 2000 Appendix
simplification resulting in the kana signs used today. Instead of relying on just the kana signs today, the Japanese still use a mixed character-kana orthography though the number of Chinese characters have been limited in recent years. Bibliography Fukui Kyūzō (ed.), Kokugogaku taikei. 10 vols. Kokucho kankōkai, 1975 Go, Ping-gam. Understanding Kanji characters by their ancestral forms : learning Kanji through pictures. Simplex Publications, 2000 Habein, Yaeko Sato. The History of the Japanese Written Language. University of Tokyo Press, 1984 Hissamatsu Sen’ichi (ed.) Keichū zenshū. 16 vols. Iwanami, 1973-9 Kurano Kenji and Takeda Yūkichi (ed.), Kojiki (NKTB, vol.1). Iwanami, 1958 Mandel, Gabriel. Japanese alphabet : the 48 essential characters. Abbeville 2008 Miller, R.A. The Japanese Language. University of Chicago Press, 1967 Nakata Tōdaiji fujumonkō no kokugogakuteki kenkyū (kaitei shinpan). Kazama shobō, 1979 Ōtomo Shin’ichi and Kimura Akira (ed.), Kanamoji-zukai. Kyūko shoin Sakamoto Tarō et al. (ed.), shoki (NKTB, vol.67-8) Iwanami, 1965 Seeley, C., A History Of Writing In Japan. University of Hawai’i Press, 2000 Appendix