(555) Why I was afraid of kawauso. [英作文]
Hello everyone. I was afraid of kawauso.
Today, I'd like to report on one of little important topics. But I am very curious about this. My topic is why I was so scared of kawauso when I was small. You might say, "I'm not interested. You are just scaredy-cat. I don't care."
Please listen to me. It happened when I was a fourth-grade boy of elementary school. I was on the way home from school with my older friend. When we were walking beside the high school playground, he suddenly whispered to me. "You know what. There is a stuffed specimen of a real kawauso in a science room of the high school."
"Really does kawauso really exist in this world?" I froze in fear.
Let me make it clear. The English word for kawauso is the Japanese otter. It is just an animal.
But I don't know of real Japanese otters. I had never seen them. So, to me Kawauso really sounded like a scary unknown monster. All I can remember now is that freezing fear on the way home.
Out of curiosity, I decided to collect the information about kawauso. And I happened to get an old book, the Animal Chronicle in haiku.
This book says that kawauso stands up on its hind legs so was often mistaken as a human child.
I had another information on the internet. It is a scary story of being deceived by otters. Surprisingly it is a scary story told in Uwajima city, my home town. A man was walking alone on the street at night when he looked closely, it became to grow taller and taller as if it was going up into the sky. This monster is called Nobiagari.
It startled the local people. They believe nobiagari is kawauso. Nobiagari monster is scariest to me. So, I am sure that nobiagari is my real reason why I was scared of kawauso. Now my question is solved completely.
In 2012 kawauso the Japanese otter became an extinct species. I feel sorry for kawauso. But it is too late.
Nowaday kawauso become very popular in Japan. The otter is a small-clawed otter, in Japanese kotsume-kawauso. There are many cute and friendly illustrations and stuffed toys of the otters.
Fortunately, they still survive in several Asian countries. But are they really happy with us? I have come to know that most of the otters of all kinds in the world are now in danger of extinction. So, thinking about otters' happiness would be an important topic. I hope otters and people can live together friendly and peacefully from now on. Lastly otters are not scary folklore monsters but very cute animals which love to play.
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