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Many emails received from Japanese companies contain characters-based dingbat-style ornament like this:

■□■□■□────────────────────────────  
blablablablablablablabla  
────────────────────────────■□■□■□

■blabla  
｜　bla：blablabla  
｜　bla：blabla

■┓　　bla 　　┏■  
┗┛━━━━━━━━━━┗┛  
...

It seems to be a particular case of Shift_JIS art (which I don't know how to say in Japanese either, by the way).

What do you call this type of email decoration in Japanese?

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  • According to this [page](http://www.ryucom.ne.jp/users/b/asciiart.htm) Shift_JIS art is called "JISアート"... –  Oct 22 '13 at 13:38
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    I think a lot of people refer to JIS / Shift_JIS / Unicode (etc.) art as "AA", ignoring whether or not it's actually ASCII. –  Oct 22 '13 at 14:13
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    If these are signatures (decorated or not), we just call them as "署名". It these are in bodies, these are probably called "飾り罫", I think. – marasai Oct 22 '13 at 16:11
  • @snailboat: A lot of people also call art containing non-Shift_JIS characters as Shift_JIS art. The web is already Unicode, why not our terms? ;) – ithisa Oct 22 '13 at 23:46
  • Incidentally, if you google JISアート, you will get a lot of sites apparently about the difference between ASCII Art and Shift-JIS Art... – Ncat Oct 23 '13 at 07:01
  • Decorative borders like this are sometimes called 境界線 (boundary lines) – r3mainer Oct 23 '13 at 10:41
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    @ちょこれーと that page contains many many errors, do not trust it. For example, 'JISコード(shift-JIS又はEUC-JP)は' is not correct. – jovanni Oct 23 '13 at 13:08
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    飾り罫 (decorative frame of text) is read as かざりけい. It does not necessarily mean decorative frame _represented as_ text. Probably there is no word which exactly describes decorative frame represented as text (either in Japanese or in English), if that is what you are asking. – Tsuyoshi Ito Oct 30 '13 at 02:22

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This decorative frame can be called 飾り罫 (かざりけい).

飾り罫 can be text-based or not, it means any kind of dingbat-style framing in general.

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