French version
Jindai moji神代文字alternative words: Jindaimoji, Holly script, Shinto script keywords: korea , mystery , shintoism related topics: Invasion of Korea , Shintoism , Nara period related web sites: http://www.age.ne.jp/x/oohashi/ , http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kami/asi-pon/jindai.html explanation: There exist many shinto documents written with holly scripts (jaindai moji) such as "Uetsu fumi" or "Hotsuma zutae", being pretended by the nationalists that Japan should have had her own scripts before the introduction of kanji characters. They are all phonetic scripts based on 5 vowels so they should be invented after Nara period when Japanese language had 8 vowels. They may have originated from Korean alphabet, hangul, that Japanese brought during Hideyoshi's Korean campaign. | |