Isn’t that the same justification for Shitake vs Shiitake? In Japanese it would be kanji or occasionally hiragana, some transliterations will be imperfect, and

Isn’t that the same justification for Shitake vs Shiitake? In Japanese it would be kanji or occasionally hiragana, some transliterations will be imperfect, and so long as the authors intent is clear, to me that’s all that matters