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In general, samurai, aristocrats, and priests had a very high
literacy rate in kanji. Recent studies have shown that literacy in kanji
among other groups in society was somewhat higher than previously
understood. For example, court documents, birth and death records and
marriage records from the Kamakura period, submitted by farmers, were
prepared in Kanji. Both the kanji literacy rate and skills in math
improved toward the end of Kamakura period.

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