Japan

Artist: Maki

Greetings from Japan. My name is Maki. I am 10 years old. Here is my grandmother "Sanae Oba-chan". Her name "Sanae" means a young plant. She teaches me Japanese traditional games. They are how to play bean bag and cat's cradle. I like her smile very much and she talk a lot of Japanese folk stories. I can learn a lot from her. She is Maki's teacher. Now I am knitting her socks with wool for her next birthday.

Maki
The Earth Club Japan

grandmother in Japanese:

obaachan, obasan, obaba,

obaachan is usually we use for grandmother. obaasan is a little bit polite way to say.

If you talk about your own grandmother, you may say obaacha for friendly. And if you want to say another person's grandmother, you'll say it for obaasan for polite.

Obaba maybe uses in local places not in the city.

Those are the Japanese words for grandmother.

Thanks,
Isamu
Japan

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