Two questions about Isshin Ryu & Isshinryu karate:

[isshinryuronin56 56]

This is a rather old discussion, but it caught my attention, and I think something of note can be added. I have wondered about the proper spacing, hyphenation, or lack thereof for a long time, but I have always used "Isshinryu" simply because my sensei (Ed Johnson) used that form on all his documentation. However, by the rules of Romaji transliteration, separate words have a space between them, so the proper way to write it as a noun would be "Isshin Ryu". By the rules of English, if it is used as an adjective [e.g. Isshin-Ryu punch," it would be hyphenated. According to an English dictionary, "Isshin Ryu" become English words because they have been adopted into English from Okinawan; as such they are no longer subject to any Japanese conventions (when used in English). Romaji itself is a universal phonetic writing in accordance with its rules and conventions.

Isshinryu is the way I have always seen it written in English. But there is an offshoot branch that uses Isshin-ryu.

 

[Gyakuto166 175]

Isshinryu is the way I have always seen it written in English. But there is an offshoot branch that uses Isshin-ryu.

I wonder how they render the hyphen when they write it in Japanese?

 

[Gerry Seymour]

I wonder how they render the hyphen when they write it in Japanese?

Since I know almost nothing of Japanese, I'm imagining a complex kanji character that is meant to symbolize the joining of elements. There are 8 diffefrent strokes involved, each representing a different word (the first 8 hyphenated words in the language). It's pronounced "da".

That's how I think of the entire Japanese writing system. I've read far too many sci-fi fantasy novels that talked about fictional lost cultures.