Iroha
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iroha-189-17937424
title:
Iroha
text:
Iroha 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). 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 o
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encyclopedia
description:
Early Middle Japanese pangram poem, composed before 1079 in the Heian period
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha
date created:
2003-08-22T09:32:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:27:03Z
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