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Today, I would like to talk about one of the key elements behind PopWaka Series #1:
the vertical writing of the Japanese Tanka.
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In this wallpaper series, the Romanized text (Romaji) is written horizontally,
but the original Japanese Tanka is intentionally written vertically.
This choice is not only aesthetic — it follows a long tradition.
For more than a thousand years, Japanese writing was primarily vertical.
Horizontal writing existed, but it was considered unusual.
Waka poetry, in particular, has always been expressed vertically,
even as modern Japanese shifted toward horizontal text in everyday life.
Recently, we often see Tanka written horizontally on social media.
However, for PopWaka, I chose to keep the traditional vertical form.
It preserves the rhythm, spacing, and quiet beauty that Waka has carried since ancient times.
This vertical layout is a small tribute to that timeless tradition,
and it is one of the foundations of the PopWaka series.
Thank you for reading.
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