I saw it used in a temple in Japan when i visited last year for the first time 
I dont recall the orientation of it but i presume its the left facing one. Now i’m curious…
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I’m fairly sure all the ones I saw were “lefty lucky”:
I was shocked AF on my first visit to Tokyo, I was wandering around, stopped to look at a handy street map and saw swastikas all over it:
(One off-centre, three over to the right, and a bunch in the upper right.) Took me a while to get over myself and work out that they marked temples or shrines.
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The whole point of logo design is to make people imagine things. Though, generally, you want people to imagine more positive things and fewer negative ones.
I think it’s stretching it to declare that the octothorp of dicks is a swastika on the basis that you can see a swastika hidden in it if you squint and narrow your eyes, and lazy journalism to mention swastikas and then leave the implication of Nazi association hanging in Western minds without at least a nod in the direction of the Eastern tradition.
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- Sprung? - Absolutely not.
- White guys made to shout? - Perhaps.
- Does the anaconda want some? - Unlikely.
2/3 at a generous best, you have to meet all 3 criteria to pass the Mix-a-lot test.
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“teletubby vomit”
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This is the old Penis Swastika Mistake. Young designers beware!
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Does the same lefty-lucky/righty-Nazi distinction apply to the penises themselves as well as the swastika? Asking for a friend.
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That was quick.
My careful analysis indicates that the anaconda does want some if they’ve got buns, hon. See also:
You see what you want to see, I guess.
That’s a manji and it’s used frequently in Japanese cartography to note Buddhist temples and shrines.
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