Tatui Baba,
An Elementary Grammar of the Japanese Language…
(1888)
“ The first was to protest against an idea entertained by some of my countrymen that the Japanese language is very imperfect, and therefore it must be exterminated. This idea, however, appears to have been given up as altogether preposterous and extravagant. The second was to give the general idea of the Japanese language as it is spoken. ”
