Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220510 
Tanuki Scroll XL(a): カッパのトゲ抜き薬 
Read today’s folktale from Ibaraki Prefecture! About a kappa who accidentally scares some people because he likes looking at the clean water in the well at the back of their house. To apologise the kappa tells the house master how to make the secret kappa elixir.
Tanuki Scroll XL(b): うどん 
And listened to today’s Edo tale. About udon noodles, and how people didn’t really know how to eat them properly. So they watch master-udon-muncher to see how it’s done, only problem is he sneezes halfway through the demonstration and the noodles pop out his nose. Everyone thinks this is proper udon-eatin-etiquette and attempt to copy him but can’t get the noodles to pop out their nose… so they jam them up their nostrils instead. 
Because my listening comprehension is pretty bad I thought I’d try listening without reading. Even though it’s a short, simple story I could only pick out a few words and then by the time I’ve made a rough idea of what a sentence means it’s already on the next.
I listened again while reading along and suddenly everything makes so much sense, probably should focus a lot more on listening.
Japanese found in the tall grass
New Things
おかっぱ「お河童」ー Bobbed hair; bob cut. Kappa hair!
真弓「まゆみ」ー Japanese spindle tree
無理矢理「むりやり」ー Forcibly
Onomatopoeia
ペタン ー The sound of something being lightly pressed