sentences:  Susumu Ōno
  
  Ōno is best remembered by fellow professional linguists for his work, following in the wake of his mentor Shinkichi Hashimoto, on the kana writing system and phonology of Old Japanese, published in 1953.He became known to the general reading public in 1957 with his popular book "The Origins of the Japanese Language", which, together with Kindaichi Haruhiko's "The Japanese Language", published the same year, created a lively interest in the nature, origins, and peculiarities of the language.