"Transliteration" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Kelly & Walsh, of Yokohama, Japan. In using oriental words I have followed, in the main, the spelling of the Century Dictionary. The Japanese names are expressed according to that uniform system of transliteration used by Hepburn, Satow and other standard writers, wherein consonants have the same general value as in English (except that initial g is always hard), while the vowels are pronounced as in Italian. ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis |
