Poetic origins of Reiwa

Photo taken at a museum in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 6, 2019, shows dolls arranged to recreate an ancient plum-viewing party during which poems from Japan's oldest poetry collection, Manyoshu -- related to the country's new era name Reiwa -- are said to have been composed (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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