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A rebus ☆f the sutras... Nankei Tachibana Tozai Yuki, 1911 'In the seventeenth century, Japanese printers began creating a type of book for the illiterate, allowing them to recite sutras and other devotional prayers, without knowledge of any written language. The texts work by a rebus principle (known as hanjimono), where each drawn image, when named aloud, sounds out a Chinese syllable' at the @PublicDomainRev Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate ↓ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/buddhist-texts-for-the-illiterate/

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