"400 Proverbs, Idioms, and Four-Character Idioms for Junior High School Entrance Exams: Complete Edition" Hideyuki Matsubara / Nitchinoken / Naomi Kajiyama Price: ¥1500 The cover has a tear. (See photo 3) You can read it like a manga, so you can easily remember proverbs. It's very helpful because it also includes examples of how they were used in actual entrance exam questions, along with the schools that used them.