Hentaigana are used in some formal handwritten documents, particularly in certificates issued by classical Japanese cultural groups (e.g., martial art schools, etiquette schools, religious study groups, etc.). Also, they are occasionally used in reproductions of classic Japanese texts, ...

Use of scripts Kanji. Kanji (漢字) are logographic characters (based on the traditional ones) taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese.. It is known from archaeological evidence that the first contacts that the Japanese had with Chinese writing took place in the 1st century AD, during the late Yayoi period.However, the Japanese people of that era probably had …