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| Keywords: Genji chapter symbols groupings of 5 elements.svg thumb 150px The 52 w Partition of a set partitions of a 5-element set The Genji-mon 源氏紋 or Genji-Kô 源氏香 symbols used for the 54 chapters of the Tale of Genji early Japanese novel They indicate the possible groupings and subgroupings of five elements from no element being grouped together with any other element chapter 2 to all five elements joined in a single grouping chapter 53 and everything in between In the notation used in the chapter symbols elements which are under a common horizontal bar are grouped together -- except that where a vertical stem crosses a horizontal bar as opposed to a corner or T this does not indicate a grouping So the symbols for chapters 35 and 42 shown in red in the diagram both indicate the same grouping elements 1 2 and 4 in one subgroup elements 3 and 5 in another subgroup The 52 possible 5-element subgroupings were expanded to 54 the number of chapters in the Tale of Genji by using equivalent representations for chapters 35 and 42 and by adding a special symbol for chapter 54 shown in green in the diagram In the incense-distinguishing game see en Kōdō Kumikō apparently the chapter 1 symbol takes the place of the chapter 35 symbol while the chapter 54 symbol is dropped see File Genjikonozu PNG leaving one symbol for each of the 52 possible groupings 52 is a Bell number Self-made graphic generated from abstract geometry and publicly-available information own 2010 AnonMoos Genji chapter symbols Kōdō Language-neutral diagrams | ||||
