Old Japanese is usually defined as the language of the Nara period (710–794), when the capital was Heijō-kyō (now Nara). [1][2] That is the period of the earliest connected texts in Japanese, the 112 songs included in the Kojiki (712).

The Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese (abbreviated ONCOJ) is a long-term collaborative research project between the University of Oxford and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, which is developing a lemmatized, parsed and comprehensively annotated digital corpus of all texts in Japanese from the Old Japanese period.

The classical Japanese language (文語, bungo, "literary language"), also called "old writing" (古文, kobun) and sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese", is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–1989).

This is a collection of 100 specimens of Japanese Tanka poetry collected in the 13th Century C.E., with some of the poems dating back to the 7th Centry. Tanka is a 31 syllable format in the pattern 5-7-5-7-7.

This page gives an introduction of the extant texts in Japanese from the Old Japanese period, as well linking to digital versions of the texts. The online digital text version of the OCOJ contains Poetic texts; The poems from the Man'yōshū usually identified as Eastern Old Japanese (EOJ); The Norito and Senmyō.

This is a list of texts written in classical Japanese, grouped by genres and in chronological order.

The Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese (abbreviated OCOJ) is a long-term research project which aims to develop a comprehensive annotated digital corpus of all extant texts in Japanese from the Old Japanese period.

This website features digitised versions of a small number of classical Japanese texts, including the Man’yōshū poetry anthology. Japanese script and romanised transliterations are provided for each text.

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Jun 26, 2014 · How to phonetically read Classical Japanese kana, and; How this knowledge helps you decipher Kobun texts; In Japanese, this system of sound conversion is called Rekishi-tekina kanadzukai 歴史的な仮名遣い （ れきしてきなかなづかい ）, or "historical kana usage".