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Posted By: rat
Posted Date: Apr 09, 2014 (09:59 PM)

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Japanese, if you are not already aware of this. The script seems of fairly low quality, perhaps it is reproducing a manuscript? There is a date at the top of the second column from the left, so presumably the book and your woodblock dates from some point afterward. Unfortunately the date refers to an event in the 10th century, so I'm afraid that gets you pretty much nowhere. I find it strange however that the kanji (the Chinese characters adopted by the Japanese) are each accompanied by furigana (the pronunciation of the kanji written in hiragana as an aid). Usually that is done for children's books; furigana usually only appears in adult reading materials to help with a particularly obscure character (which is not the case here).

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