The Jailhouse

[Koikaze]

I'm mortified. You're asking an American farm boy for the proper pronunciation of a Japanese word he had the effrontery to appropriate as his name. Well, here's my best effort.

KOI, seems to come out a simple KO ... EEEEE

KAZE, is two syllables KA and ZE, where KA is like MA and ZE is like ZEN without the "N".

All of which, I suppose, could be represented as: KO ... EEEEE ... KA ... ZEH

Of course, that still ain't gonna make it any easier to rhyme.

And, yes, Kamikaze has the same ending.

Fred