What old Japanese texts can be used in the same fashion as the latin "Lorem Ipsum"?


"[Lorem Ipsum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum)" is used as a place
holder when creating designs or formatting media that will have actual text
and functionality.

**Question**  
I would like to know what the Japanese equivalent is of this (if one exists)
and or what ancient Japanese texts can be used in a similar fashion to produce
"text that looks like actual text, but isn't understandable to the average
viewer". Basically the same as Lorem Ipsum.




Like the site that helix pointed out, dummy text generators will just pick
some works and generate text from that. There's not one classic text that
almost every designer uses.

The work that [this dummy text
generator](http://lipsum.sugutsukaeru.jp/index.cgi) uses by default is
"[私の個人主義](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E7%A7%81%E3%81%AE%E5%80%8B%E4%BA%BA%E4%B8%BB%E7%BE%A9-%E8%AC%9B%E8%AB%87%E7%A4%BE%E5%AD%A6%E8%A1%93%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-271-%E5%A4%8F%E7%9B%AE-%E6%BC%B1%E7%9F%B3/dp/4061582712)"
("My Individualism") by 夏目漱石 (Soseki Natsume)




Like the site that helix pointed out, dummy text generators will just pick
some works and generate text from that. There's not one classic text that
almost every designer uses.

The work that [this dummy text
generator](http://lipsum.sugutsukaeru.jp/index.cgi) uses by default is
"[私の個人主義](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E7%A7%81%E3%81%AE%E5%80%8B%E4%BA%BA%E4%B8%BB%E7%BE%A9-%E8%AC%9B%E8%AB%87%E7%A4%BE%E5%AD%A6%E8%A1%93%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-271-%E5%A4%8F%E7%9B%AE-%E6%BC%B1%E7%9F%B3/dp/4061582712)"
("My Individualism") by 夏目漱石 (Soseki Natsume)

