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Shinsekai Type Study Group
Founded in 2011, Tokyo:
Okazawa Yoshihide, b. 1970, Japan
Hidechika, b. 1968, Japan
Tsukada Tetsuya, b. 1971, Japan
shinsekai.type.org
Japanese scripts were initially meant to be written vertically. Today, However, they mostly appear horizontally—from left to right—in order to represent on the computer screen as well as to combine with international languages such as English. Kana characters of Japanese scripts, in particular, were invented from simplified kanji (Chinese characters), which also used to be written vertically. Therefore, the strokes of each character show vertical movement. Kana characters containing such inevitable strokes are set horizontally from left to right—who could have imagined that when kana characters were born?
Here, we would like to pose a question: if kana characters are mutating into a new set of horizontal-written characters, what would they look like? We would like to discover new figures of kana especially for horizontal writing, reviewing the origin and history of kana from the perspective of its contemporary use.
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