This Genkouyoushi notebook is perfect to practice Japanese handwriting of hiragana, katakana and kanji characters:
The book contains a mixture of alternate lined pages for adding notes and specially designed printed with vertical columns of squares, and each square designed to accommodate a single Japanese character.
Size: 8 x 10 Inches, 88 Pages.
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalised Japanese words and grammatical elements, and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
Almost all written Japanese sentences contain a mixture of kanji and kana. Because of this mixture of scripts, in addition to a large inventory of kanji characters, the Japanese writing system is often considered to be one of the most complicated in use anywhere in the world.