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Iroha, the Glossary

The is a Japanese poem.^[1]

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Buddhist poetry
Collation
Constrained writing
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Abecedarius

An abecedarius (also abecedary and abecedarian) is a special type of acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse follows the order of the letters in the alphabet.

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The or is a Japanese pangram, first appearing in the 9th century AD in the Minamoto Shitagōshū (Collection of Minamoto Shitagō), which is credited as being the oldest perfect pangram in the Japanese language. Iroha and Ametsuchi no Uta are pangrams.

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Board game record

A board game record is a game record for a board game.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Collation

Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order.

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Dakuten and handakuten

The, colloquially, is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

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E (kana)

In Japanese writing, the kana え (hiragana) and エ (katakana) (romanised e) occupy the fourth place, between う and お, in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana.

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Go (game)

# Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to capture more territory than the opponent by fencing off empty space.

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Gojūon

In the Japanese language, the is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order. Iroha and Gojūon are Collation.

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Golden Light Sutra

The Golden Light Sutra or (सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रराजः) is a Buddhist text of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. Iroha and Hiragana are Japanese writing system.

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Historical kana orthography

The, or, refers to the in general use until orthographic reforms after World War II; the current orthography was adopted by Cabinet order in 1946.

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Impermanence

Impermanence, also known as the philosophical problem of change, is a philosophical concept addressed in a variety of religions and philosophies.

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Japan Railways Group

The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as the or simply JR, is a group of railway companies in Japan that underwent division and privatization (see also the article about the reform on the Japanese Wikipedia) of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Japanese literature

Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature.

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Japanese National Railways

The abbreviated JNR or, was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.

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Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Iroha and Kana are Japanese writing system.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. Iroha and Kanji are Japanese writing system.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). Iroha and Katakana are Japanese writing system.

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Kūkai

Kūkai (空海; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835Kūkai was born in 774, the 5th year of the Hōki era; his exact date of birth was designated as the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the Japanese lunar calendar, some 400 years later, by the Shingon sect (Hakeda, 1972 p. 14). Accordingly, Kūkai's birthday is commemorated on June 15 in modern times.

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Lake Chūzenji

, also called Sea of Happiness, is a scenic lake in Nikkō National Park in the city of Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

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Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra

The Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Sanskrit;,; Vietnamese: Kinh Đại Bát Niết Bàn) or Nirvana Sutra for short, is an influential Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture of the Buddha-nature class.

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Man'yōgana

is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. Iroha and Man'yōgana are Japanese writing system.

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Meiji era

The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable.

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Musical note

In music, notes are distinct and isolatable sounds that act as the most basic building blocks for nearly all of music.

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Nikkō

is a city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

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Nirvana

Nirvana (निर्वाण nirvāṇa; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lampRichard Gombrich, Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo. Routledge) is a concept in Indian religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism), the extinguishing of the passions which is the ultimate state of soteriological release and the liberation from duḥkha ('suffering') and saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and rebirth.

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Obsolescence

Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Okinawan language

The Okinawan language (沖縄口, ウチナーグチ) or Central Okinawan is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kumejima, Tonaki, Aguni and a number of smaller peripheral islands.

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Okinawan scripts

Okinawan, spoken in Okinawa Island, was once the official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Iroha and Okinawan scripts are Japanese writing system.

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Pangram

A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Iroha and pangram are pangrams.

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Ryuichi Abe

is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions at Harvard University.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Shingon Buddhism

is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism.

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Shiva Sutras

The Śiva·sūtras, technically akṣara·samāmnāya, variously called, pratyāhāra·sūtrāṇi, varṇa·samāmnāya, etc., refer to a set of fourteen aphorisms devised as an arrangement of the sounds of Sanskrit for the purposes of grammatical exposition as carried out by the grammarian Pāṇini in the Aṣṭādhyāyī. Iroha and Shiva Sutras are Collation.

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Sound change

A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language.

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Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Imperial Japanese Navy submarines originated with the purchase of five Holland type submarines from the United States in 1904.

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The ABC Song

"The ABC Song" is the best-known song used to recite the English alphabet in alphabetical order.

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. Iroha and the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog are pangrams.

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Thousand Character Classic

The Thousand Character Classic, also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. Iroha and Thousand Character Classic are Constrained writing.

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Voiceless bilabial fricative

The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Voiceless glottal fricative

The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha

Also known as I-ro-ha, Irowa, .

Iroha, the Glossary

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Buddhist poetry

Collation

Constrained writing

Japanese poems

Pangrams

References