Hepburn romanization
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Hepburn is the main system of romanization for the Japanese language. The system was originally published in 1867 by American Christian missionary and physician James Curtis Hepburn as the standard in
James Curtis Hepburn, creator of the system
Former Japan National Railways–style board of Toyooka Station. For the two adjacent stations, "GEMBUDŌ" follows the Hepburn romanization system, but "KOKUHU" follows both the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki systems.
Katakana
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Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script.
Hepburn romanization
…三つ（みっつ）: mittsu – three Each entry contains hiragana, katakana, and Hepburn romanization, in that order. † — The characters in red are historical characters and are obsolete in modern Japanese. In modern Hepburn…
Collection of poems by priest Myōe, 1248
In this travel warning, the kanji for "fog" (霧) has been written in katakana (キリ) to make it more immediately readable.
A page of the Meiji Constitution written exclusively with kyūjitai and katakana
Japanese katakana in a 1873 textbook