2006, Noël J. Nickson and Laurence E. R. Picken, Music from the Tang Court: Some Ancient Connections Exploredhttp://books.google.com/books?id=G6_voeVrDkwC, ISBN 1397805218, page 50:"Be that as it may, it is certain that the lexigraph for hayashi is not a Japanese creation, but a nowadays-forgotten Chinese character..."
2006, James A.W. Heffernan, "Speaking for Pictures" in Writing and Seeing: Essays on Word and Imagehttp://books.google.com/books?id=BrjM1PAUWCEC, ISBN 9042016981, page 43:"He does not want them to be read as we might read a lexigraph, a postmodern painting of words such as Joseph Kosuth's red..."