Intermediate Japanese Book Club // Now Reading: セーラー服と機関銃

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The thread is up. I took way too long overthinking it, scrapped everything and just went with this:

@Belthazar’s poem research club for the betterment of everyone’s education: reading マンガ✖くり返しでスイスイ覚えられる百人一首

Goal: This thread aims to read マンガ✖くり返しでスイスイ覚えられる百人一首 and provide historical background for the poems of the 百人一首. Official starting date: July 18th From that point on, we will discuss 5 poems a week, but feel free to read or discuss before the official start. Organization: Each week, the OP is updated with a link jumping to the start of the current conversation The thread is used to ask questions about the content of the book (like a regular book club) as well as the history, background of…

Definitely not my best thread, but at least I’m falling forward.