a Japanese pangram

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This card comes from a user in Japan via Postcrossing; they sent me this beautiful depiction of an old style of writing Japanese called “iroha.” Further, this card depicts a pangram - using all of the letters in Japanese! The famous pangram in English is “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Do you know a shorter one?

That is in fact the plot of one of my favorite books, called “Ella Minnow Pea” by Mark Dunn. Check it out!

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