How is bad hand writing treated in the Japanese culture


How bad can your hiragana, katakana and kanji characters be before people
start to complain about it. I know a fair bit of Arabic, Spanish, and English,
and in all of those languages and their respective cultures, it is fairly
normal for people to have very bad had writing.




Shodo (書道, calligraphy) defines how those glyphs can be broken. At least
"beautiful" broken glyphs has some rules, so when correctly written "行書" and
"草書" are always readable. Broken glyphs out of such rules aren't guaranteed to
be understood. This would be common for all Kanji-based cultures I suppose.

