Clipping of 旧帝大学 (Kyūtei Daigaku, “former Imperial University”).

classic car, collectible vehicle, antique car

relatives and old friends

Lunar New Year

"old characters": Synonym of 旧字体 (kyūjitai)

Man'yōgana, the early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds: the predecessor of hiragana and katakana

hentaigana: any of the hiragana made obsolete in Meiji-era reforms that enforced having one hiragana for each syllable

(orthography) the four kana pairs of じ/ジ, ず/ズ, ぢ/ヂ and づ/ヅ, the latter two of which represent historical morae that are now pronounced identically to the former two in most major dialects

an orthographic technique utilizing Chinese characters in a way that maps the Chinese pronunciation, or such an approximation, to Japanese sounds to write Japanese words

an orthographic technique utilizing Chinese characters in a way that maps character semantics to Japanese words to write Japanese words