The following are special instructions for dealing with non-contemporary Japanese author names appeared in our JMSTC microfiche collection. Click here for general procedures of JMSTC cataloging project.

1. First, try to search for a Name Authority record (on Connexion), and see if there is an authority file established for this author.
2. If there is an authority file, use that for the name in 100 or 700 fields in the bib record. Note, the authority form can be different from that in the 245 statement of responsibility.
3. If there is no authority file established for the name, we should try to keep consistant for the author name — at least in all records created by us. Check OSCAR for form(s) beinig used in our library catalog.
4. This means, we should keep using a consistant form of that author, and if there’s a year associated with that author, include that on the bib record. The form can be the “real” name or the author’s psedonym.

For examples,
稲岡奴之助 (Inaoka Nunosuke) often appears in different forms, sometimes it is 奴之助, sometimes 稲岡奴之助. Upon a time, we discovered the author’s birth year (1873) — from reliable and reasonable sources, from that point, we need to establish a form of the author’s name (i.e. that to be used for 100 or 700 on the bib record). For this case, it should be
┌稲岡奴之助, ǂd b. 1873
└Inaoka, Nunosuke, ǂd b. 1873

呑気楼三昧(Nonki Ōzanmi) is the psedonym of 高松豊治郎 (Takamatsu Toyojirō)

This is an example that an author has an authority file
松林伯圓, ǂd 1832-1905
Shōrin, Hakuen, ǂd 1832-1905.