10 Minute Biographies Chapter Ten: Tomitaro Makino Start Date: 13th March (JST) Previous Chapter: Chapter 9 Next Chapter: Chapter 11 Home Thread: Link [IMG_0939] Schedule We are reading at the pace of one page per day. If a sentence crosses two pages it is read as part of the first page. ▶ …

▶ Page 149 Indeed, the first sentence is far too complicated for me (I was happy that the rest of the page was straight forward. 「ノボロギク」。。。野原に生えているぼろぼろに見えるキクなど、特徴やすがたがずばりとわかる、面白い物があります。 Just to clarify, no one thought that the ending ものがあります can be this meaning ?

The example sentences on jisho.org for ものがあります don’t seem to take that meaning very literally. There’s actually a grammar point on bunpro.jp for ものがある saying it’s “used to express strong subjective (hard to specify) feeling that something is/should be the case” but I don’t think that fits here. 「ノボ…

I don’t think that the plants are interesting here (at least not in the grammatical sense), but the names he gave them. The structure is the following (over 3 sentences): He gave the plants popular names: ‘bad eggplant’ ‘shabby chrysanthemum’ など (etc.) (this terminates the enumeration) Those nam…

[image] 2000kanji: Those names are easy to understand and interesting because they describe the characteristics and shapes of the plants. THIS is the part that I was missing - that the text is talking about the name and not the plant itself. Ending the enumeration in the middle of the sentenc…

It seems a bit funny that the sentence would be talking about the names themselves but not make that more explicit in the sentence itself. I know subject is often implied but this series of books has tons of sentences where という or 名前 feel overused. I guess the ellipsis in this sentence are putting i…

The link between the name のボロギク and the characteristics of the plant are easier to see if you look at the kanji. It’s 野襤褸菊 - field, rags, chrysanthemum.

[image] 2000kanji: 富太郎が、出に植物を取りに行くときは、いつもスーツに蝶ネクタイをしていたそうです。 It seems that Tomitaro always wore a suit and a bow tie when he went out to collect plants. I think this is the other そう: It is said that Tomitaro …

▶ pg. 150 There’s a botanical garden named after Makino in Kochi prefecture: Makino Botanical Garden Top Page It looks lovely! I always like visiting the local botanical garden whenever I get to travel to a new city.

▶ Page 150 Question about last sentence: 日本の植物図鑑の元と成る一冊で、今でも使われています。 How the part with “origin” “become” “one volume” is being constructed/governed, there is no particles between の and で Wow, I’m super exited that I stick with this chapter till the end (given my previous history of joining several…

10 Minute Biographies Chapter 10 (Absolute Beginner Book Club)

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Micki March 25, 2021, 8:12pm 151

This has been a great chapter and really enjoyed all the discussions. One of the harder chapters in my opinion. Chapter 11 thread is up ready for tomorrow.

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10 Minute Biographies Chapter 10 (Absolute Beginner Book Club)

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