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Genkō yōshi (原稿用紙, "manuscript paper") is a type of Japanese paper used for writing. It is printed with squares, typically 200 or 400 per sheet, each square designed to accommodate a single Japanese character or punctuation mark.
Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...
The paper used was taken from old letters and official documents. Heian period, early 11th century, before 1012 One handscroll, ink on paper, 30.3 cm × 1,279.0 cm (11.9 in × 503.5 in) Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto: Saibara Music Score (催馬楽譜, Saibara fu) [194] [195] attributed to Prince Munetaka
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.
Kingyoku Wakashū (1007–11) Wakanrōeishū (1018) Yorizaneshū (after 1044) Zōkihōshishū (mid 11th century) Shōryōshū (1078) Gensanmi Yorimasashū (1173–78) Chōshūeisō (1178) Tsuneiekyōshū (c. 1182) Sankashū (late 12th century) Kinkai Wakashū (c. 1213) Kenrei-mon In Ukyō No Daibu Shū (c. 1233) Fūyō Wakashū (1271 ...
Section of the earliest extant complete manuscript of the Kokinshū (Gen'ei edition, National Treasure); early twelfth century; at the Tokyo National Museum The Kokin Wakashū (古今和歌集, "Collection of Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times"), commonly abbreviated as Kokinshū (古今集), is an early anthology of the waka form of Japanese poetry, dating from the Heian period.
Kanji (漢字, Japanese pronunciation:) are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. [1] They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana.
They were the main media for writing documents in China before the widespread introduction of paper during the first two centuries AD. (Silk was occasionally used, for example in the Chu Silk Manuscript, but was prohibitively expensive for most documents.) [1] Strips of wood or bamboo vary primarily in length.