I am currently reading an early story by Tanizaki Junichiro in
Japanese. I have come across both the hiragana く and ぐ written
twice the size they usually are, taking up the same amount of
space on the page as two characters. Is there any significance
in this? These include words such as ひいくと and いろくの注文, where the
character in bold is written at twice the height as normal. Any
help would be most appreciated (^-^)