Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220505 
Tanuki Scroll XXXV: 茶・栗・柿(ちゃくりかき) 
Read today’s folktale about a man selling tea, persimmons and chestnuts, but he tries to combine all of them into one word when sales-shouting and fails miserably.
Japanese found in the tall grass
New Things
籠「かご」ー Basket; hamper
ちっとも「些とも (Rarely used)」ー Not at all
気の毒「きのどく」ー Pitiful; unfortunate; poor
頷き「うなずき」ー Nod
うまくやる「旨くやる」ー To do something well
Magical Adventure of the Periodic Table
Earlier I came across: 鎂「マグネシウム」- magnesium, and this got curious about how many of the elements have kanji.
Though it is unlikely to see these elements in kanji-form over katakana, other than the common ones like gold, iron, copper etc., I still thought it was pretty cool. It seems most of the elements do have their own special kanji though some common ones like potassium have their own kanji names that don’t use the special kanji 「加里 vs. 鉀」- so there’s not really much reason for me to be looking them up, and most only really seem to be used for Chinese… it’s just cool okay
I didn’t check all of them, but here’s some that I found cool:
鈉 - Sodium
鈣 - Calcium
鐳 - Radium
釔 - Yttrium
锰 - Manganese
鈷 - Cobalt
汞 - Mercury
硅 - Silicon
溴 - Bromine
氦 - Helium
Nihonium, you know the element that is named after Japan, isn’t know by its kanji, just as ニホニウム 
sad times (Chinese is: 鉨)