Hakama and Gi embroidery question

I have seen hakama and gi's where people have their names embroidered in japanese on them. I would like to get this done, but I am woundering what type of japanese writing is acceptable; Katakana, kata-kanji, or caligraphy. And I would also like to know where I could get my name written correctly in japanese.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Hi Troy,

The difference between katakana and kanji is that the katakana mostly represent 1 CHARACTER or a sound.
Kanji has a mening and that is very personal. Also kanji has not all the CHARACTERs.
My name cannot be done (Arjan). The don't have a regular r for example.
As for katakana: here is a site:
http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writsys/katakana.html

Hope this helps.
I let my calligraphy do by Bu Jin design when I buy a hakama (I just did)

Arjan
Netherlands

As far as I now if you by a Hakama or Gi from some internet site they can do that, for example www.budostuff.com www.tozando.com www.bujindesign.com
www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/iwataco/frame2e.html I'm sure there must be others to.

Fitting Western names into kanji is gauche.

Katakana speelings of western names are written as they are pronounced in Japanese, not how we spell them.


Troy, your name would be pronounced "to ro oy", the katakana is $B%H%m%$(B

Arjan, your name would be pronounced "ah jan", the katakana is $B%"!<%8%c%s(B


rgds

Bryan

OK, had that problem last night too (thanks for deleting the mess Jun). I have no idea why the katakana for Ahjan is converting to mojibake!?

I have attached a jpeg with the kana for both of your names.

rgds

Bryan

Domo Arigato Bryan!
When I tried to look up the spelling for my name, I didn't know that the "T" would have been "TO" and the "Y" been "OY". Japanese is indeed turning out to be somewhat of a challange to learn.

Troy Copes wrote: Domo Arigato Bryan! When I tried to look up the spelling for my name, I didn't know that the "T" would have been "TO" and the "Y" been "OY". Japanese is indeed turning out to be somewhat of a challange to learn.

Hi Troy,

Actually, that`s just a bad attempt on my part to write down how you would say it. The actual characters that I have used are "To", "Ro", and "i". The "i" is actually pronounced "ee" as in see".

Regards

Bryan

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for the katakana. I have it allready on another hakama.
The kanji of my name was written by suganuma sensei from Fukuoka Japan.

Greetings,

Arjan