Iroha
Early Middle Japanese pangram poem, composed before 1079 in the Heian period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Iroha (disambiguation).
The Iroha (いろは) is a Japanese poem. Originally the poem was attributed to Kūkai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, but more modern research has found the date of composition to be later in the Heian period (794–1179).[1] The first record of its existence dates from 1079. It is famous because it is a perfect pangram, containing each character of the Japanese syllabary exactly once. Because of this, it is also used as an ordering for the syllabary, in the same way as the A, B, C, D... sequence of the Latin alphabet.
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Iroha | |
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Original title | いろは歌 |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Meter | or |
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