Because many examples using this orthography were found in the "Manyoshu" (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves), these special Chinese characters were later called Manyo-gana (during the Edo period and later). 『万葉集』でこの方法がよく用いられたことから、後世(江戸時代から)万葉仮名と呼ぶようになった。 |