| I typically use the capped version based on a belief that it was a proper name of some kind in Japanese. The lack of capping in the Japanese langauge does not seem relevant to me, nor does the lack of cap usuage by the Japanese when writing in romaji. It is a word from the likes of Koten-Kobun, and very few Japanese would ever know the origin.
I feel that if the origin did indeed come from "Ako" and "ya", some historic text would have referred the word in those particular kanji. I have never seen it as such. |