Miyake Marc Hideo. Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction

Routledge, 2004. — 308 p.What did eighth century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Sanskrit and Tibetan sources, and enables the reader to approximate the original pronunciation of Old Japanese literature.Early transcriptions of Japanese
Previous research on phonograms
Japanese phonology through time
Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, and Sinoxenic
Goals and methodology
The reconstruction of Old Japanese consonants
The reconstruction of Old Japanese vowels