Question
A poem with this quality that ends by describing “a world of shallow dreams” was long thought to be written by Kukai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism. For 10 points each:
[10e] Describe this quality exemplified by the medieval Japanese poem Iroha. Sentences such as “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and other pangrams have this quality.
ANSWER: they use all letters in a language’s alphabet at least once [accept symbols or characters in place of letters; accept syllabary or writing system in place of “alphabet”; accept holoalphabetic]
[10m] Iroha spawned a game using this collaborative poetic form, in which competitors write poems whose stanzas each begin with a different hiragana character. Multiple poets link stanzas together in this precursor of haiku.
ANSWER: renga
[10h] The text of Iroha also describes scattering flowers on a mountain, reminiscent of this poem by Kim Sowol, which begins, “When you leave, sick and tired of me, I shall send you away silently.”
ANSWER: “Azaleas”
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