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  2. Taoism in Japan - Wikipedia

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    One spell of Taoistic influence is the “Come down, soldiers and fighters, and line up before me!” which is used to enter a holy mountain on certain days. Another ritual formula evident of Taoism is the “Swiftly, swiftly, in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!” which can be seen in banners, talismans and roof tiles even today in ...

  3. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.

  4. Tao - Wikipedia

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    Calligraphy of Tao (道) The word "Tao" has a variety of meanings in both the ancient and modern Chinese language. Aside from its purely prosaic use meaning road, channel, path, principle, or similar, [2] the word has acquired a variety of differing and often confusing metaphorical, philosophical, and religious uses. In most belief systems, the ...

  5. East Asian typography - Wikipedia

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    East Asian typography is the application of typography to the writing systems used for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. Scripts represented in East Asian typography include Chinese characters , kana , and hangul .

  6. Yatate - Wikipedia

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    Yatate literally means "quiver".The name comes from the practice of early bushi who kept ink stones inside their quivers.. Japanese writing was traditionally done using the writing set inspired from China: an inking stone, a small stick of solid ink (which is turned to usable liquid ink by grinding on the inking stone and watering), and brushes.

  7. The Japanese Letter-Writing Era - Wikipedia

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    This brought higher chances of people writing things such as letters. [1] More people were starting to travel far away from home. These were to carry out certain duties. Because of this letters became a more key source of communication. [1] Another thing that brought the letter-writing period, was the establishment of the Hikyaku Postal

  8. Taoism - Wikipedia

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    The Tao is seen as granting each person a ming (life destiny), which is one's corporeal existence, one's body and vitality. [156] Generally speaking, Taoist cultivation seeks a holistic psychosomatic form of training that is described as "dual cultivation of innate nature and life-destiny" ( xingming shuanxiu ). [ 156 ]

  9. Taito (kanji) - Wikipedia

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    Variant 1: daito or otodo Variant 2: taito Taito, daito, or otodo (𱁬/) is a kokuji (kanji character invented in Japan) written with 84 strokes, and thus the most graphically complex CJK character—collectively referring to Chinese characters and derivatives used in the written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.