In the last half a century or so, has anyone ever tried to write a literary
text in Japanese that would cover all (or most) of 常用漢字?

I'm looking for something along the lines of the Thousand Character Classic
(千字文) they have in China. Is there anything at all like that in Japan?
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kanji literature
Literary work using all (or most) of 常用漢字
There is no well-known one. I found that there are several works that
intentionally contain all **教育** 漢字, a subset of 常用漢字:

  * [学校ふしぎクラブと言葉の国](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4864105855/): A comic book that contains all 教育漢字 for educational purposes.
  * [小学校学習漢字１００６字がすべて読める漢字童話](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4780704421/): As the title says. The book has 6 tales, each of which contains all the kanji learned in a certain grade.
  * [平成千字文](http://earth.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/ishiwata/senjimon.htm): A modern Japanese version of classical 千字文. Contains most 教育漢字.

I found them purely by internet search. I could not find a 常用漢字 version,
presumably because of the lack of demand.
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