Double acrostic (English spelling)

Japanese: double acrostic(英語表記)doubleacrostic
Double acrostic (English spelling)

… Yoshida Kenko incorporates the request of a friend, "I want rice and money," into an elegant autumn poem (Figure 1). In the West, this is called a "double acrostic," in which the words are hidden at the end of the line. The "yaedasuki" is a further complex arrangement of several poems in a lattice pattern (Figure 2). …

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Japanese:

…友人に対する〈米(よね)たまへ銭(ぜに)も欲し〉という無心を,吉田兼好は優雅な秋の歌に折り込んでいる(図1)。西洋でこれに当たるのは,行末に語をひそませた〈ダブル・アクロスティックdouble acrostic〉である。沓冠をさらに複雑化して,幾種もの歌を格子状に組み合わせたのが〈八重襷(やえだすき)〉である(図2)。…

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