The literary style such as Senmyo and Norito (Shinto prayers) is referred to as Senmyotai, and its orthography, Senmyogaki, is a way of writing in which parts of speech and stems of words are written in large characters, and postpositional particles, auxiliary verbs (Japanese grammar), ending of declinable words, and so on, in flush-right smaller characters of word-and-sound Manyogana (a form of syllabary used in the Manyoshu [Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves]).
宣命・祝詞などの文体を宣命体といい、その表記法である宣命書とは、品詞・品詞の語幹を大きな字で書き、助詞・助動詞(国文法)・用言の語尾などは、一字一音の万葉仮名で小さく右に寄せて書く方法である。