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Missing glyphs use a standard Japanese font. v0.9.9
If this tool helps your project, consider supporting the addition of more historical glyphs and continued development.
From generation and per-glyph editing to PNG export.
Characters are arranged vertically. Columns run from right to left. A line break starts a new column.
These options can normalize modern input so the tool can find more historical glyph candidates.
Open “Normalized text / Missing glyphs” to inspect the result. This is not a scholarly conversion into historical kana orthography.
Tap a character in the generated image to edit only that character.
Slider changes are applied when you release the control. The − and + buttons move one step at a time. “Reset this glyph” resets only its position and scale.
“Reroll glyphs” chooses new glyphs and new jitter while preserving each character’s position and scale. Changing the paper texture preserves the selected glyphs, jitter, position, and scale.
The tool does not draw new connecting strokes between characters. The connected look is created through glyph choice and positioning.
Glyph images are derived from the Kuzushiji Dataset (held by NIJL and others, processed by CODH), doi:10.20676/00000340, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Sliders apply when released. The − and + buttons adjust one step at a time. These corrections remain when you change the glyph candidate or paper texture.