The Authentic Orthography
Sacred Region, Three Shrines · Bear plain
Why kumano.com is the correct form
熊野
The name in its original Japanese characters form. 熊野 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
KUMANO
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Kumano
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
kumano.com → kumano.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kumano are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kumano.
How kumano becomes Kumano
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 03 | m | → | m | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 05 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 06 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
Why Kumano is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Japanese form 熊野 preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how Kumano behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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