Although it was sometimes considered that katakana and large-sized prints were based on woodcut printing or wooden characters, a thesis written by Toshi ARAI concluded that all were based on metal characters. |
片仮名や大型活字については整版や木活字によると考えられたこともあったが、新井トシによる論攷ですべてが金属活字によるとされた。 |