I was always curious about why tabaco was written in hiragana but this article explains it. > Many of the first words which were introduced and entered the Jap

I was always curious about why tabaco was written in hiragana but this article explains it. > Many of the first words which were introduced and entered the Japanese language from Portuguese and Dutch are written in kanji or hiragana, rather than katakana, which is the more common way to write loanwords in Japanese in modern times.