Inspired by some of the pictographs from Hiragana in 48 minutes, and introducing a lot of my own pictographs, these two short stories and accompanying lesson plans provide an innovative and fun new method to effectively teach the basic 46 hiragana, as well as the combined/blended sounds and voiced sounds in only three lessons! This is a proven method that has been successful in numerous schools since 2013. It has been taught to children from 5 years old all the way up to adults! The stories are