kanekata

Updated: May 22, 2025

It is agreed that the so-called "letters" are nothing more than copies of marks produced by the action of fire upon bones used in divination. The Japanese cleverly adapted the Chinese ideographs to syllabic purposes, but they never devised a script of their own. *Kanekata, who wrote the Shaku Nihongi in the era 1264 1274.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era