@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006893,
 author = {伊東, 卓治 and Ito, Takuji},
 issue = {182},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {The scribblings on the pedestal mentioned in the heading contain two groups of kana (Japanese syllabaries), one on the central portion of the kaeri-bana (see the preceding article) and the other on the reverse side of the disk. Although they are no more than amateurish writings just for fun, they are worth being introduced here as old examples of Japanese calligraphy whose date can be fairly placed in 1053.
     The former group, written in a rough, rigid manner, is not worth much from the viewpoint of the history of calligraphy. The latter, written on the reverse of the disk, attracts out attention with its fairly fine flowing style. Apparently it was originally written in three lines, but now only a few letters renain respectively at the beginning and the end of the second line, the rest having been scraped off. It cannot be known how the original writing read. From stylistic point of view, this kana writing may be classified as an example following, in a slightly stylized way, the calligraphic style of the Group 1 of the Kōya-gire (a hand-written copy, presumably made around the first part of the eleventh century, of the anthology Kokin-shū, revealing three different styles of calligraphy called Groups 1, 2 and 3). It resembles, in some way or other, the style of the record of a poetry contest known as the Hon-in Sadaijin Uta-awase. This latter, included in the Jukkan-bon Uta-awase (Records of Poetry Contests in Ten Volumes) edited in the middle of the eleventh century, shows a style following that of the Group 1 of the Kōya-gire. To sum up, the kana writing on the reverse side of the disk, although done by an amateur calligraphist, can be called a specimen of Japanese calligraphy around the mideleventh century under the influence of the above-mentioned style. Being an obvious brushwork by a self-made amateur, it finds no kin among existing old examples of callgiraphy.
     Mention must be made also of the pictorial writing appearing like ashide-e (see preceding article), found on the same side of the disk. There is a possibility that it is a drawing of cloud patterns, but more probably it is a specimen of ashide-e, for it shows something like water-streams and birds found frequently in ashide-e pictures. The oldest example of ashide-e known heretofore being of about the beginning of the twelfth century, the present specimen, if it can be admitted as such, is a very important piece antedating it as long as half a century. Regarding the origin of ashide-e Dr. Yoshizawa has published his theory, but the present author imagines that it originally was a unique type of kana script ; that it was used as a means of paper decoration over which drawings or paintings were executed; and that, intermixed with the drawn lines, it finally became a combination of writing and drawing, or pictorial writing, termed ashide-e.},
 pages = {29--36},
 title = {鳳凰堂本尊胎内納置の阿弥陀大小呪月輪台座の楽書},
 year = {1955}
}