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Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name by glandium on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:50AM (#19542047)
It's not even a word in Manyōshū. It's two characters taken from two words in a sentence from there, 令月 and 和ぎ.
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Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name by rangibaby on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:21AM (#19542939)
Heisei and Showa are both made up of single characters selected from poetry passages, I guess that is how they choose names
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