Table of Contents

Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, symbols, and conventions, 1 Introduction, 2 Early transcriptions of Japanese, 3 Previous research on phonograms, 4 Japanese phonology through time, 5 Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, and Sinoxenic, 6 Goals and methodology, 7 The reconstruction of Old Japanese consonants, 8 The reconstruction of Old Japanese vowels, 9 Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

About the Author

Marc Hideo Miyake