the ones used in historical man'yogana. Modern transcriptions of classical texts are predominantly written in shinjitai. To avoid unnecessary ambiguity, quotes from classical texts would be written in kyujitai.

Additionally, there are many spelling differences between Modern Japanese and Early Middle Japanese even for the same word. For example, ??? is spelled in modern Japanese hiragana as ??????? man'yoshu, while in Early Middle Japanese, this would have been ?????? man'yefushifu.