An old-style 朝?


Why does 朝 on the flag of the Asahi Shinbun Company not look like 朝?

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LpEBO.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LpEBO.png)

<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Asahi_Shinbun_Company.svg>

I looked in various places for older forms of this kanji but could not find
it. Not even Halpern lists this form, although my paper edition even has
"grass kanji" (草書【そうしょ】).

<https://kanji.jitenon.jp/kanji/191.html?getdata=671d>&search=contain&how=%E3%81%99%E3%81%B9%E3%81%A6

[https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/kanji/朝/](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/kanji/%E6%9C%9D/)

<https://kanjitisiki.com/syogako/syogaku2/111.html>

[https://jisho.org/search/朝%20%23kanji](https://jisho.org/search/%E6%9C%9D%20%23kanji)

<http://wwwjdic.biz/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1MKU671d>




Asahi shimbun has its own font.

  * [Asahi characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_characters)

The particular 朝 is taken from 欧陽詢's 大唐宗聖観記.

The original characters look like below (from [here](https://ameblo.jp/soufu-
style/entry-10989143616.html)). (新 was not used in the monument and invented.)

[![picture](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bmzqt.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bmzqt.jpg)

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  * [朝日新聞ちょい解体新書-vol.01 題字編-](https://info.asahi.com/choiyomi/kaitaishinsho/01/)




Asahi shimbun has its own font.

  * [Asahi characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_characters)

The particular 朝 is taken from 欧陽詢's 大唐宗聖観記.

The original characters look like below (from [here](https://ameblo.jp/soufu-
style/entry-10989143616.html)). (新 was not used in the monument and invented.)

[![picture](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bmzqt.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bmzqt.jpg)

* * *

  * [朝日新聞ちょい解体新書-vol.01 題字編-](https://info.asahi.com/choiyomi/kaitaishinsho/01/)

