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The 19 pages that link to Kana, each with the reason it gives.

• Heian periodRelated: Kana enabled court writers to compose vernacular poetry and prose.

• Chinese charactersCompared with: Kana encode Japanese syllables more directly and routinely accompany kanji.

• The Tale of GenjiRelated: Kana enabled vernacular literary writing associated with Heian court women.

• Japanese calligraphyRelated: The emergence of kana made Japanese-language brush writing visually distinct.

• SyllabaryBroader topic: Kana exemplify a compact system built around syllabic sound units.

• TankaRelated: Kana makes the sound-based counting behind tanka’s pattern visible.

• Murasaki ShikibuRelated: Kana enabled literary expression in Japanese, including the prose tradition Murasaki helped shape.

• Yamato-eRelated: The spread of kana accompanied the native literary culture that Yamato-e often depicted.

• Japanese phonologyRelated: Kana spellings make the language’s mora-based organization especially visible.

• The Pillow BookRelated: Kana enabled the courtly vernacular prose associated with Shōnagon’s work.

• Man'yōganaNarrower topic: Kana streamlined the character forms that man'yōgana had used to write Japanese sounds.

• KanjiNarrower topic: Kana supply grammatical endings and readings that kanji alone cannot show.

• Motoori NorinagaRelated: Norinaga’s analyses of classical texts relied on distinctions in Japanese sound and written form.

• Sei ShōnagonRelated: Kana enabled court women to write Japanese literary prose outside the prestige of Chinese composition.

• Heian literatureRelated: Kana made extended Japanese prose and verse easier to write outside classical Chinese conventions.

• Ōshikōchi no MitsuneRelated: The spread of kana supported the vernacular writing of court poetry like Mitsune’s.

• Ariwara no NarihiraRelated: The development of kana supported the literary culture in which waka circulated.

• James Curtis HepburnRelated: Kana supplied the Japanese sound-to-symbol correspondences that romanization represents.

• Romanization of JapaneseNarrower topic: Romanization systems commonly begin by mapping kana characters to Latin letters.