It may have varied depending on the following vowel, as it does with modern Japanese.
But his plain and simple writing style makes me think that perhaps it is the modern Japanese who are weird.
Many of the landmark names and other locations of the massive engagement have been changed by modern Japanese.
If the modern Japanese are descended directly from those people, it's no wonder they're so warlike.
However, for the most part, these are not in use in modern Japanese.
Both ligatures have fallen out of use in modern Japanese.
Only at the beginning of the twentieth century some authors started to use punctuation marks as are found for example in modern Japanese.
The film is his rejection of the way the modern Japanese have tried to banish it from their lives.
Kyoku usually means music piece or music number in modern Japanese.
His name is especially associated with a complete translation of the Bible into modern Japanese.