Japanese Festivals in Japanese Language (Step.3 MATSU‪)‬

Step.3 - MATSU (松, pine)


This book is for students who are interested in Japanese traditional events and language.

In this book you will have fun finding out about Japanese traditions while naturally learning a new language.

For many different levels of Japanese learners, there are three books using different styles of writing.


In this version, you can experience the vertical writing, which is the most common Japanese writing style. The text is written vertically, rather than horizontally.

There are three types of writing included.

First is a mixture of hiragana and kanji, but to the right side of every kanji there is hiragana to show how to read it.

Second is a writing in which we use regular Japanese kanji, katakana and hiragana sentences.

Third, we put spaces in the hiragana sentences so you can clearly see the different words. Japanese doesn’t have spaces between words so it could be confusing for a non native.

Additionally, there is a table showing how to read Japanese dates because the readings of certain dates are quite different from other regular numbers.