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This study reexamined Motoori, Norinaga’s discussion of ancient special kana usage in ‘Kana no koto’ from “Kojiki-den(1)”, the earliest known reference to this phonological phenomenon. It assessed Motoori’s contribution to Japanese linguistics through his discovery of kana distinctions in the ancient period and considers his views on the relationship between ‘kana’(仮字, phonetic kana) and ‘karimoji’(借字, borrowed characters), the distinction between ‘オ’(/o/) and ‘ヲ’ (/wo/), and his interpretation of kana involving consonantal elements. It is well known that Motoori identified the kana orthography used in the “Kojiki” as the most accurate, noting distinctions such as between voiced and voiceless sounds, and even among homophones, where the character used varies depending on the word’s meaning. While previous studies have primarily focused on the differentiation of kana, this paper confirms that Motoori also displayed insight in estimating the phonetic values of vowel syllables. Although he inherited Keityu’s kana usage framework, Motoori further independently systematized the phonetic distinction between ‘オ’ and ‘ヲ’ by correcting their placement based on his own reasoning, which is a point Keityu had overlooked. Two issues remain open. First, ‘Kana no koto’ makes no mention of the confusion among the ‘Yotsugana(四つ仮名)’, which arose due to the palatalization of ta/da-row sounds during the Edo period. Second, in the phonology of the ancient period, kō/otsu (甲/乙) distinctions appear in kana rows such as /ki/, /gi/, /bi/, and /mi/, but not in the sa/ta-rows, except in the /-i/ and /-e/ syllables. These points are left as questions for future study.

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1. はじめに
2. 仮名の書き分けの発見と音韻研究の発展
3. ｢假字(カナ)の事｣の配列に見られる本居の見解
3.1 ｢仮字｣と｢借字｣の使い分け
3.2 ｢仮字｣の配列順
3.3 四つ仮名混同に対する本居の認識
4. 結論
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• 權景愛 [ 권경애 | 韓国外国語大学校 日本言語文化学部 教授 ]

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• 간행물명

  일본언어문화 [Journal of japanese Language and Culture]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-9585

• 수록기간

  2002~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 730 DDC 495