歴史的仮名遣い

歴史的 (rekishiteki, “historical”) +‎ 仮名遣い (kanazukai, “kana usage”)

歴(れき)史(し)的(てき)仮(か)名(な)遣(づか)い • (rekishiteki kanazukai) ^{←れきしてきかなづかひ (rekisiteki kanadukafi)?}

1. "Historical kana usage", a historically-informed Japanese orthography. Formed in the Edo period by Keichū (契沖) and taught in schools until 1946, it restores the spellings used in stages of the language (Heian period and earlier) that predate various phonetic mergers.

• 旧(きゅう)仮(か)名(な) (kyūkana, literally “old kana”)
• 正(せい)仮(か)名(な) (seikana, literally “correct kana”)

• 現代仮名遣(げんだいかなづか)い (gendai kanazukai, literally “modern kana usage”), the post-1946 successor