Fredora
at 2023-04-07 16:49:57 UTC
not really, back in the day they used long bamboo sticks to write on in East Asia
with thing long sticks you basically have to write from top to bottom, that's where the direction thing comes from
nowadays most Japanese texts except for times where the space is limited or when you have some artistic reason are written side by side like in the West, so one could say it's a bit more traditional if anything, I guess
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