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Hello. I've circled characters I cannot recognise. The top one looks like を but there is an actual をnext to it and it looks different. Why? The middle one is ゆ in my opinion. But I'm not sure about that. Why does it look different to the usual ゆ? And according to my research the bottom one is ず. But again I have to ask why is there another ずand it doesn't look like that? Thank you all for your answers!
They're hentaigana, forms which were used before the 1900 script reform. From top to bottom: な、ゆ、ず.
