A Historical Study of Japanese Go-on

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The present investigator proposes the following views about old Japanese Go-on. 1)A feature of Zen-sei(@@) and Ji-sei(@@) in ancient Chinese is precisely maintained as a feature of Sei-on(@@) in Japanese Go-on.Chinese characters contradictory to this exist evenly at every category of initial consonants in ancient Chinese. 2) In-bo(@@) of ancient Chinese shows some types in Japanese Go-on. For example, a group of Gai-ten(@@) appears as follow.type 1 Ka-setsu(@@@) Ko-setsu(@@) To-setsu(@@@)type 2 Ko-setsu(@@) Kan-setsu(@@) San-setsu(@@)type 3 Kai-setsu(@@)Type 1 shows a vowel 'a' through four classes(I-IV) of ancient Chinese.Type 2 shows a vowel 'e' at III and IV.Type 3 is considered to consist of three stratum.3) The tonal confusion of Jo-sho(@@) and Kyo-sho(@@) like in Japanese Go-on is found in materials of Japanese Kan-on(@@).