Word: kayeshi
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...delicate characters, decorating her "poems" with puns and symbols, word play and subtle metaphors. Her diary is less fancy and more amusing than her verse. She divided experience into "Disagreeable Things," "Very Tiresome Things," "Deceptive Things." Under "Annoying Things" she lists: "When one sends a poem or a kayeshi [return poem] to someone, and after it has gone, thinks of some small alteration -perhaps only a couple of letters-that would have improved...
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