
it had taken about 300 years,for Japanese people,to make their own Nihongo Mora-letters writing system called "Hiragana ( Alphabet )" , from the Chinese characters. But i try to show them in this 3 minutes Video. ---------------------------------------------- Additional information (This info was Updated on the 27 Apr. 2008): First three styles of Kanji ,such as the printed(Block)style,the semi-cursive-style,and the cursive-style had already existed in China before Japanese people imported them. And surprisingly,the Block-style is the latest version of three.That is because there were more than one streem ,or maybe more than two streems ,for handing down the Chinese-character to the next generation in the ancient Countries of China.And later period of times,they cut across each other.So it should be considered that each style of these three had , at first, evolved independently or indirectly from others in the ancient China. [ But of course,originally they were from the same style such as REISHO隷書 which was the official style in the KAN(HAN)-dynasty 漢王朝(202 BC - 8 AD) and the post-KAN(HAN)-dynasty後漢王朝(25 AD - 220 AD), And this REISHO隷書 was very similar to KAISHO楷書(the Block style of KANJI). And i think since KAISHO is more beautiful than ancient-REISHO,this evolusion--from REISHO to KAISHO--was in order to have more beautiful-looking,i guess. ] But i don't know whether they were imported to Japan at the same time or not.Either way,they were beginning to be <b>...</b>
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