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手書き. Handwritten Japanese, including, but not restricted to, Japanese calligraphy.

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Need help reading old hand-written Japanese

A friend of mine asked me for help in translating some old family documents. This particular piece is an internment card of a family member that was captured on Java by the Japanese during the second world war. After some successes, I still have…
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Is it unusual in a noticeable way to slant your Japanese writing?

As a right-handed person whose first language is English, I have a natural rightwards slant to my handwriting much of the time, depending on how quickly I'm writing and what physical position I'm in as I write. I've noticed I sometimes impart this…
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"Normal" handwritten Japanese

What do you call "normal" handwritten Japanese? I mean this as opposed to calligraphic style or handwriting in block letters? What would be a cursive Japanese writing? Something that you would find on blackboards in lectures, class notes, posters,…
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Writing vertically in horizontally lined notebook

I'm still learning Japanese but I want to start writing anyway, I got a normal notebook with horizontal lines but I would like to write vertically so I just rotated it, my question is with this setup, which side of the notebook should I start…
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When writing Japanese when is it appropriate to write vertically?

I am starting to learn Japanese, and a question struck me: If I were to write a note to a friend, or perhaps an extended essay, when would it be appropriate to write vertically? From my experience trying to read books/manga it seems there is a…
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Deciphering handwritten phrase and its meaning

In the 前回の僕街 series, we see sketches drawn by the director of the 僕だけがいない街 anime that are generally humorous rewrites of a scene in the previous episode. In the ninth sketch (image above), we see Satoru chasing after the car in the foreground after…
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Help identifying signature

I am trying to identify what I'm assuming is a name or signature written in Japanese. The author of the note was a German/Japanese American, and he wrote the note to identify the name of an artist in 1928. The character is directly after the English…
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Can't recognize these handwritten kana (or kanji) in a text

While reading a 1920s handwritten official document, I'm having some trouble to recognize these two kana (or kanji) which the red arrows (see image below) are pointing at. The question here is what kana or kanji are these two symbols? The content of…
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Handwriting liberties

So this is my first time tying to convert handwriting to text, and its left me with a few questions. Line 6 Char 2; I would say is likely せ but I've not come across any instance where stroke 3 can extend below stroke 2, nor can I find a Kanji that…
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"辶" or "⻍", the writing of [之繞]{しん・にょう}

I know that for historical reasons, 之繞 in computer systems has two forms: Kanji characters in 当用漢字表 usually use 辶 (一点之繞) Kanji characters outside 当用漢字表 preserve the traditional ⻍ (二点之繞) However, I can't find anything regarding its handwriting.…
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Handwriting in Japanese

I've heard of the terms brush-up, release, stop, etc. When natives write, do they follow this rules? Is it widely known? Would natives know if I did a release, stop, etc? Is it okay not to use it as long as the character is identical to the…
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How to learn proper Japanese handwriting

I know the stroke order of kanji and the kana, I can write them. But Japanese handwriting is a lot different from our templates or RTK kanji. They look different (like the special "そ"), but also with kanji I see people sometimes not finishing…
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Help understanding this handwritten Japanese sentence

Could you help me understand what is handwritten in this image? It is taken from a manga about boxing. My attempt: 左ボディ→左アッパー右フック 上(?)の打ち分け オー(?)ックス(?)コンビネーション を得意とする　サンデーパンチ
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How to distinguish between handwritten ソ and ン?

I often get confused in distinguishing between the handwritten ソ and ン. Is there any hint to do so easily? I know the stroke order for both in writing so what I want to know is how to distinguish between them in reading.
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What's this handwritten character?

I'm having trouble figuring out what characters these are: I guess the two on the right are "まだ", but what's the one on the left? Thanks for your help.
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