And there was a long tradition of writing in Chinese dating back to, well, when Japan first imported writing from China. My understanding is that it was done less and less after the classical period, and what there was, was more predominately prose than poetry.
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Date: 2010-07-04 02:16 am (UTC)Which makes an 18th century kanshi interesting.
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