The Wonderful World of Words: A Grand Adventure Brand new, unused. Excerpt: Before Moe, an elementary school student who loves Hanafuda cards, a frog that suddenly speaks appears! "You shall call me 'Frog Dainagon'." "What's the difference between 'onigiri' and 'omusubi'?" "Why is 'green' called 'blue signal'?" "Why is America written as 'Beikoku' (United States)?" " 'Watashi,' 'Ore,' 'Sessha,' 'Maro'... Why does Japanese have so many first-person pronouns?" And so on, a frog who knows an awful lot about Japanese thoroughly explains various mysteries of the Japanese language that are not understood if you think about them! (But there are also many things he doesn't understand...) ● Why Japanese has so many onomatopoeia (sound-symbolic words and mimetic words) ● The mystery of Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa ● Which came first, hiragana or katakana? ● Is Japan "Nippon" or "Nihon"? ● Are "tamagoyaki" and "tamago-yaki" the same thing? ● How are the readings of kanji in Otemachi and Nagatacho decided? ● Why is the age of twenty read as "hatachi"? ● "Etsunan," which country is this? ...and so on Let's embark on a grand adventure around the mysteries of the Japanese language, the more you know, the more interesting it becomes!