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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MisuseCase@twit.social ("Misuse Case") wrote:
@Dany @tilde @paninid One of the ways Japanese nobility communicated was by sending each other short poems called waka (imagine Tweets but also with a required syllable structure). They also had a bunch of poetic conventions drawn from old poetry anthologies, native mythology, and Chinese classics that they were all expected to know and use.
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