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Originally Posted by JollyElm
Wow, that brings up an interesting question from this gaijin (had to look that one up). Is there a loose 'script' way of writing Japanese characters? The way an autograph in English doesn't comply with what each letter 'should' look like? That sorta thing?
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There is, but it doesn’t get used much in autographs.
Ichiro is a good example. His name is formally written in kanji characters as 一郎 and is a fairly common first name. But when his name is written in Japanese they always used the simplified katakana characters as イチロー.
But his signature in Japanese is just a huge mess of squiggly lines and I can’t tell which version he is trying to write.