Credits
Last updated: 22 October 2026
Kotojutsu builds on these open works. Thanks to their authors.
KanjiVG
Stroke shapes and stroke order of the kanji and kana. The strokes redistributed by Kotojutsu remain under the same licence.
© Ulrich Apel and contributors. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0). Project website
JMdict
Flashcard dictionary: written forms, readings, French and English meanings, word frequency. Kotojutsu's dictionary, derived from it, remains under the same licence.
© Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Project website
KANJIDIC2
JLPT N4 to N1 kanji decks: meanings, readings, stroke count and frequency of each kanji.
© Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Project website
Jonathan Waller's JLPT lists
Split of kanji and words by JLPT level (N5 to N1). There is no official list: these lists, also used by Jisho, are the reference.
© Jonathan Waller; matched to JMdict by Stephen Kraus (yomitan-jlpt-vocab). Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY). Project website
French Wiktionary
French meanings of the Japanese words in the flashcard dictionary.
© the French Wiktionary contributors, extracted by kaikki.org (wiktextract, Tatu Ylonen). Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Project website
Dela Gothic One, Zen Kaku Gothic New, Klee One
Typefaces, served directly by the site.
© artakana (Dela Gothic One), Yoshimichi Ohira (Zen Kaku Gothic New), Fontworks (Klee One). SIL Open Font License 1.1. Project website
gpt-oss-120b
Language model behind Densha, the AI assistant of the lessons and grammar.
OpenAI, run by Groq. Apache License 2.0. Project website
SpeechGen
Audio of the single kana (あ, か, ア…), in every voice.
SpeechGen.io. Commercial licence included in all plans. Project website
VOICEVOX
Japanese voices "Female" and "Male", chosen in the settings.
VOICEVOX:No.7 (No.7製作委員会), VOICEVOX:玄野武宏 (ViRVOX Project). Each voice's terms of use, which require this credit. Project website
WanaKana
Romaji-to-kana conversion while typing.
© the WanaKana contributors. MIT License. Project website
Review algorithm
FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler), reimplemented for Kotojutsu with the default parameters published by the open-spaced-repetition project (MIT licence).