Orthographic Note on Japanese Words

Abstract

Japanese names appear with the family name first, unless the authors of cited publications identify themselves using English name order. Japanese words are italicized only on their first appearance. A compound noun may be rendered as separate words (e.g., bekkaku kanpeisha), as one word (kobugattai), or hyphenated (ikan-sokutai), to signify different degrees of discreteness or connectedness and somewhat depending on the word's length. The honorific prefix oor gois treated as part of the stem (e.g., otsuki) if it is inseparable from the latter in informants' speech (this is particularly true in imperial reference, e.g., ^qgakuyit, gokashikin) and thus appears under oor goin the glossary and index. Otherwise the honorific prefix is connected with the stem by a hyphen (go-sanke, oatotori] and the stem alone is indexed.