Japanese Grammar (An Old and Rare Book)

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Born in 1949, the author, Koichi Varasshita specialized his subject in Indian and Buddhist Studies and completed the B.A., the M.A. and the Ph. D. programme at Otani University, Kyoto, Japan. Besides his research work, he was teaching Japanese and English at High Schools in Kyoto. In 1984 when he was a Ph. D. candidate of Calcutta University, Joined Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, as a Reader in Japanese, and now the Head of the Department of Japanese Studies. He is a Ph. D. (C.U.) and pushed several papers on Indian Philosophy & Culture, Buddhist Studies and Japanese Language & Literature.

When we learn any foreign language, as far as we are not children, usually we have limited time to spare. It in required systematically to teach, as a teacher, and to learn, as a learner. I am sure that a sentence must be explained or be learned with understanding of grammar. At an early stage of learning, learners should know the frame idea of the grammar concerned. In the class of Japanese language we use some textbooks, which usually have grammatical explanations or portions of grammar. Still, I have been feeling the necessity of students' having a grammar-book. The grammar-book should be compact, have simple and clear explanations, and be easy to use in the class room.

Although those kinds of grammar-book have been published in a good number outside of India, it is too difficult to get a copy here in India. Therefore I have been trying to write a Japanese Grammar in English.

This present Japanese Grammar is designed almost based on the so-called school grammar which Japanese boys and girls learn in school till high school. I would have arranged in another way of design, but I did not dare to do it because the school grammar have been used since long ago and ordinary Japanese people have acknowledged of the Japanese Grammar Lased on it, however the school grammar have been well criticized. Moreover, I think that after mastering modern Japanese Grammar based on the school grammar the learners can go far deeply into the classical Japanese, In some portions of explanation, I do not follow the school grammar. Always I keep in mind the convenience of learners' understanding Japanese. My point in the present Japanese Grammar is laid on not to discuss what is noun, for instance, but to explain how noun functions in the structure of sentence.