📚📚 Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 🌸 🌱

:tiger2: :books: Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220418 :cherry_blossom: :raccoon:

Tanuki Scroll XVIII: 幽霊の足跡 :foot:

Read today’s Hyakumonogatari, from Osaka prefecture!

About the ghost of a woman who has been left to wander and cannot pass over, until a priest hears her story and helps her.


:seedling: Japanese found in the tall grass :seedling:

New Things

お勤め「おつとめ」ー One’s business; reading of scriptures before Buddha, can also be: 御勤め
本堂「ほんどう」ー Main temple building; nave
彷徨う「さまよう」ー To loiter; to wander about (I think I vaguely recognise this)
本尊「ほんぞん」ー Principal object of worship at a temple; principal image/idol

Forgotten Things

とく」ー Virtue; benevolence

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