odin wrote:

>> Also, would Kanji be the script used in traditional Japenese poetry?

Declan Murphy replied:

>Yes and no. Yes it was used in traditional (as it is in contemporary)
>forms, no it is not accurate to say that it was always used, or used
>exclusively without the other scripts.

In quite a lot of Japanese poetry, the tendency was to use the hiragana
script much of the time, with just a few kanji thrown in from time to
time. Without really knowing, I think this may have been due to the
fact that many poetical forms were based on having a fixed number of
syllables, which could be seen more clearly if the syllabary were used
instead of pictograms.

John
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