Japan Autumn Word Search

About this book

> Written and produced in Japan by a Japanese author — Aki Wakamatsu, published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC. This is not a mass-produced puzzle book: the 600-word pool was researched and written in Japan, temple by temple, orchard by orchard. > > 300 LARGE-PRINT PUZZLES. 600 WORDS. EVERY MAPLE TEMPLE, HARVEST MOON AND CHESTNUT OF A JAPANESE AUTUMN. > > Most word-search books give you 100 puzzles about anything. This one gives you 300 — and every single word belongs to Japan in autumn. > > Travel the red season one puzzle at a time: the maple temples of Kyoto by name, from covered bridges to moss gardens in Ohara; the great autumn festivals, from the Festival of the Ages to November's lucky-rake fairs; moon viewing and the potato moon; chrysanthemum dolls and giant exhibition blooms; the rice harvest and its brand-name cultivars; stone-roasted sweet potatoes; wild mushrooms from the matsutake hunt to the deadly white amanita; persimmons fresh, dried and hanging in strings; chestnuts, pears, grapes and giant apples; sanma and the autumn catch; new sake and the king of sake rice; riverside taro parties and regional soups; the seven grasses of autumn; ginkgo avenues and cosmos hills; red mountains and gorge railways; sports day, Shichi-Go-San shrine visits, the equinox week and the old calendar of moonlit nights — in big, comfortable large-print 15×15 grids. > > Learn while you play: every hidden word comes with a one-line note — which temple it is, where the festival marches, why the pickle is made in late autumn. By Puzzle 300 you will read Japan's autumn like a local. The 600-word pool was built for this book: not one grid word is recycled from the earlier volumes of this series — where those books used general words, this one uses autumn's proper names, cultivars, rites and season words. With this volume, the four seasons of the series are complete. > > Made to be solved: all 300 puzzles are computer-verified in two independent ways, so every hidden word appears exactly once — no printing mistakes, no impossible grids. Full highlighted solutions are printed at the back. > > For paper and for pen: solve the paperback with a pencil, or open the Kindle Scribe edition and circle words right on the page. > > The perfect autumn gift for Japan lovers, gardeners, mushroom fans, and anyone planning a fall trip to Japan. > > Inside: 300 puzzles · 30 autumn themes · 600 words with notes · 3,000 word placements · verified unique solutions · full answer key