Where does “仮名文” come from?

仮名文 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

仮名文 (Japanese): a letter written in kana script

Definitions

  1. a letter written in kana script

Ancestry of “仮名文”, step by step

仮名文 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 仮名

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
2Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
3Middle Chinese名name

via Japanese 文

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese文the mon, an old currency; a unit of length for...
2Middle Chinese文—
Every word from Middle Chinese 名 →Every word from Japanese 名 →Every word from Japanese 仮名 →