Jindai Moji

Type(s): Syllabary

Description
- A fictional writing system invented by Japanese nationalists in the 1930s as a historical hoax in order to be able to claim that the Japanese did not get their writing system from the Chinese, but actually invented a writing system of their own.

Object id: 3239
Item identifier(s):
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