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窶伉ｸﾂ皇ﾂ敖ｵﾋ?
- 10 Nov 2010
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Question for you experts on historic Kanji writing.
In US and UK we have access via satellite to NHK live and CCTV9 (CN) and CCTV9 recently ran an special on the history of Buddhism in China with frequent references to the original White Horse Temple (no reference to the fact that it was burnt down during the cultural revolution). In pictures at the top of a restored arch the temple presents itself in characters written horizontally as: ﾅｽ窶ｺ窶拵窶昶?
Yet googling White Horse Temple only yields results for 窶昶?吮?拵ﾅｽ窶ｺ
My question is whether in the old days when writing horizontally they treated characters as if they were at the top of a column and wrote text from right to left. That would be interesting because, like with Roman script, characters are built top to bottom and left to right and are meant to be scanned that way.
In US and UK we have access via satellite to NHK live and CCTV9 (CN) and CCTV9 recently ran an special on the history of Buddhism in China with frequent references to the original White Horse Temple (no reference to the fact that it was burnt down during the cultural revolution). In pictures at the top of a restored arch the temple presents itself in characters written horizontally as: ﾅｽ窶ｺ窶拵窶昶?
Yet googling White Horse Temple only yields results for 窶昶?吮?拵ﾅｽ窶ｺ
My question is whether in the old days when writing horizontally they treated characters as if they were at the top of a column and wrote text from right to left. That would be interesting because, like with Roman script, characters are built top to bottom and left to right and are meant to be scanned that way.