Dear Prof. Yamaguchi, Thank you so much for your follows. Actually, because of my poor English, as well as Japanese. I cannot write the report more interesting..... I known the other name of cowrie in Japanese is "Koyasu-gai". I will continue to write this in detail, in the continued report. Thank you for your indication and fruitful advice. I think many oversea collectors have Japanese shell book. But there are few materials topics on Japanese shell names. I have a book "The Japanese Name of Shells" (Kai No Wa Mei). It is interesting. But it was writen in Japanese. I like Japanese shell naming. Most of them are quite interesting and attractive. We can enjoy them. So I planed this topics. But it is too difficult to write.....Really a hard work.....(^^) I want to try my best to continue this reports..... Thanks again. - Jiongtao http://www.soft.ics.keio.ac.jp/~huang/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com