37. Emergence of Kanji and Difference among Hawayo Takata's Masters

Kanji evolves over time and individual handwriting

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The idea of the Master symbol did not come from the original 22 Takata Masters. They practiced and taught the way that she gave them the system bar minor differences.

It was clear that it was Kanji and that there were several different ways to write the Kanji.

There is a book by my mother called “the grey book”.  The Kanji on that is very old, it’s almost Chinese. Written today it would have many less strokes and would almost not be recognisable.