Note 9 — TAKETORI NO OKINA NO MONOGATARI TEXT TRANSLITERATED

According to Lange (Einf. in d. Jap. Schrift) the Katakana syllabary did not come into use till towards the close of the eighth century, and the cursive syllabary (hiragana) was first used by Tsurayuki in his preface to the Kokinshiu (see below), in the beginning of the tenth century, the approximate date of the Taketori itself.