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Iroha
| Iroha | |
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.jpg) Firefighters' insignia organized according to the Iroha. | |
| Original title | いろは歌 |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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.
- ^ Abe (1999), pp. 392, 398
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