Talk:Enemy Vessels/@comment-28489947-20160615124430/@comment-26336020-20170318012643

Just want to point out it's not really unusual for Japan to be ordering ships with this poem. It was used during the war, but also for a few limited things in  modern japan.

The iroha poem is actually just like the ABC's for us. Then there's the other ABCD as in Kou Otsu Hei Tei that we see respectively in A Class Medals, Kouhyouteki and the various Kai-ni variants we have of some ships now.