Well beats Rock and Scissors, because both of them sink in the well. Scissors beats Leaf, because it can cut leaves. Leaf beats Well by covering it, and beats Rock by wrapping it up. Rock beats Scissors by dulling the metal. After explainig this, he suddenly started to talk about scuba diving.
Divers have to wait until the tide is right.
He did his best to explain all this to me, a person who doesn't understand French, with his fresh acquired Japanese vocabulary. He wanted to emphasize that they use it only to kill time. He had heard that we are making a kind of cultural encyclopedea, in order to encourage cross-cultural understanding and mutual respect by sharing it all over the world. We pass on our sincere gratitude to him for sparing multiculturalpedia his time. We consider this a living cultural encyclopedea.