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I am currrently studying through the Japanese-English book called カルテットII, and
this section goes over understanding the body of a text through context clues
in the title. This is the example poem they offered: [![enter image
description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/e0ilG.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/e0ilG.jpg)

However, look at the end of the title after 金子みず: the “punctuation” is like
the first stroke from ふ with a dakuten. What is this? Is this some odd error,
or does it have actual meaning? I do not even know what this is called, so I
can not begin to research it in any meaningful way. I can only conclude it
related to designating the author, since the part is outside the parenthesis.
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punctuation poetry
What is this odd Japanese Symbol with a Dakuten?
It's an iteration mark denoting the repetition of the previous hiragana, with
a dakuten.
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As Strechie-go mentioned, this is an iteration mark for Hiragana, in the same
way that 々 is an iteration mark for Kanji.

Here are some [additional
details](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration_mark#Kana):

> Kana uses different iteration marks; one for hiragana, ゝ, and one for
> katakana, ヽ. The hiragana iteration mark is seen in some personal names like
> さゝき Sasaki or おゝの Ōno, and it forms part of the formal name of the car
> company Isuzu (いすゞ).
>
> Unlike the kanji iteration marks, which do not reflect sound changes, kana
> iteration marks closely reflect sound, and the kana iteration marks can be
> combined with the dakuten voicing mark to indicate that the repeated
> syllable should be voiced, for example みすゞ Misuzu. If the first syllable is
> already voiced, for example じじ jiji, the voiced repetition mark still needs
> to be used: じゞ rather than じゝ, which would be read as jishi.
>
> While widespread in old Japanese texts, the kana iteration marks are
> generally not used in modern Japanese outside proper names, though they may
> appear in informal handwritten texts.

So in 金子みすゞ, the ゞ denotes the repetition of す but with a dakuten — ず. This is
[Misuzu Kaneko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuzu_Kaneko)'s name, who was a
Japanese poet from the early 20th century.

[This question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/5228) has
additional details as well.
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