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This may be due to the fact that previous era names had its source in Chinese literature. Reiwa, on the other hand, comes from passage that appears in Manyoshu

This may be due to the fact that previous era names had its source in Chinese literature. Reiwa, on the other hand, comes from passage that appears in Manyoshu poetry collection.

glandium 8y ago
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.
- rangibaby 8y ago
  Heisei and Showa are both made up of single characters selected from poetry passages, I guess that is how they choose names