Identification - Microsoft clipart pub60cor
Skimming through old clipart libraries, this is the only calligraphy that appears.
Having trouble identifying.
If it's kana, the "ya" looks weird and it's hard to parse the rest of the ten & horizontal strokes. A "ko" followed by a (mild hentaigana) "shi" with dakuten would also make sense. Then again, I can't find much at all about this clipart, no mentioins of yakoji, yagoji.
If it's a character/multiple, I can't think of which radical the "ya" would appear as, even if the first two ten look like a cover for something. The final strokes might resemble "kokoro" but I'm really not convinced.
I'm not too sure how I'd identify something like this on my own, so any insight into your process for confirming is appreciated :)
Let's figure out if there's any reason THIS was the only shodou clipart microsoft thought to include!