@_sotanaka Funny timing -- just 2 days ago I explained precisely this use of | and || for personal and place names in my "文語s" class! (In the plural on purpose.) We were reading some Siebold-related letters from the appendix of Kure's biography of him. (Scan: https://t.co/UVSbKrjSXk) https://t.co/tDfnA4DK1R