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English: Japanese "alphabet" by Engelbert Kaempfer 1690-1693. Listing firo-canna (modern romanisation: Hiragana) and catta-canna (modern romanisation: Katakana), alongside "imatto-canna" (mostly variant kana, or "Hentaigana", mistaken as a congruent syllabary). Two rows of right-to-left columns, top comes before bottom. Written out using Japanese consonant ordering but Roman vowel ordering. Each column is written in right-to-left columns of Hiragana, then Katakana, then "imatto" kana, and romanisation (which differs from modern romanisations in places) last (leftmost) of all.
Date between 1690 and 1693
date QS:P,+1690-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1690-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1693-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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