Specifically, kana (Japanese syllabary - alphabet) was devised based on kanji (Chinese characters), waka (a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables) and chronicles were described, and wayo shodo (literally, "Japanese calligraphy") was established, and there was speculation that Yamato-e also appeared around that time.
漢字をもとに仮名が考案され、和歌や物語文学が興隆し、和様書道が成立したことなどがその具体的な現れであり、大和絵の出現もこの頃と推量される。