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If you wrote "ーテラ", you wrote gibberish. You started the word with a long vowel mark which must follow a vowel. If you meant for it to be read right to left, you wrote "Rataa".
Dojo: Aikido Institute of America, Seidokan Aikido
Location: California
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: Marking your weapons
A while back a student commented that I should mark one of my bokken. It didn't have anything on it and he said someone might get confused. That night I marked my bokken on the ura on the tsuka.
If you wrote "ーテラ", you wrote gibberish. You started the word with a long vowel mark which must follow a vowel. If you meant for it to be read right to left, you wrote "Rataa".
Since we are nit-picking テ is "Te". Tara would be タラ.
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