| With permission, from
James Deacon’s Reiki Pages (www.aetw.org)
http://www.geocities.com/fascin8or/reiki_kanji_note.html
Most of us are aware of the word
'Reiki' as it is
generally written in Japanese kanji :
However, many people do not realize
that Usui Sensei
would never have actually written the
word 'Reiki' using
this particular 'kanji-pair'.
Why not? Simply because these two
kanji did not actually exist in this
form during Usui Sensei's lifetime.
They only came into being in the
1940's - when the Japanese government,
in an attempt to modernize the kanji
writing system, simplified the shapes of
a great many kanji - thus making
them easier to learn and quicker to
write.
In Usui Sensei's lifetime, the word
'Reiki', in kanji form,
was written thus:
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