Timeline for Under what circumstances does Japanese read from right to left?
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| Jul 25, 2017 at 12:27 | comment | added | archaephyrryx | I never knew this. I was actually wondering about this because there was a sign written R-to-L in a manga I was reading (in Japanese) the other day. | |
| Dec 7, 2013 at 2:19 | vote | accept | Golden Cuy | ||
| Oct 10, 2013 at 23:38 | comment | added | Sjiveru | I guess it doesn't have to be the case, then, that it's still considered one-row tategaki; but it may have been extended (and modified) from one-row tategaki. I find it interesting that the only L-to-R in that image is directly above a Roman-letter transcription/translation of the Japanese text, though. | |
| Oct 10, 2013 at 23:33 | comment | added | user1478 | Historically, there are examples of R-to-L text that are clearly not a special case of vertical text, e.g. this image, which contains both L-to-R and R-to-L. The explanation I remember reading is that both L-to-R and R-to-L appeared around the same time, but R-to-L never became popular. I think the evidence against the "single row 縦書き" interpretation includes text in multiple rows, typesetting of small characters such as 読点, and the long vowel marker being horizontal rather than vertical. | |
| Oct 10, 2013 at 23:20 | history | answered | Sjiveru | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
