Day 43: February 12th
365日にっぽんのいろ図鑑
Time spent: 10? min (forgot to time)
Today’s color: 新橋色 (しんばしいろ) - a very pretty aqua blue-type color
Named for the 新橋 district of Tokyo, because it was popular among geisha there.
Good words
- 地名 (ちめい) - place name; toponym
- ハイカラ - stylish; smart; fashionable (“high collar”)
- 理性的 (りせいてき) - traditional
- 冷静沈着 (れいせいちんちゃく) - calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
- 美人画 (びじんが) - portrait of a beautiful woman (esp. ukiyo-e)
- 実業家 (じつぎょうか) - businessman; entrepreneur; captain of industry (the kanji of this word amuse me - like, sure, you have your サラリーマン, but these are the real businessmen)
- 集う (つどう) - to meet; to assemble; to congregate
- 社交場 (しゃこうば) - social meeting place; watering hole
- 享楽的 (きょうらくてき) - pleasure-seeking
まいにち暦生活 日本の暮らしを楽しむ365のコツ
Time spent: 12 min
Today’s reading was about ハマグリ - the common orient clam. Apparently a symbol of harmony in marriage, because the shell only fits together with its other half (not halves from other shells).
What else did I read?
海のどうぶつが可愛すぎて!
Amount read: 6 pages
Time spent: 35 min
More penguin talk - today I learned about Boulders Beach in South Africa, where you can see real live penguins in the wild :o Then I started the next chapter, which is (so far) about otters :3
Please enjoy this selection of pictures titled..."Otters Holding Hands"
This is so cute it looks fake
Some good words
- 赤道付近 (せきどうふきん) - low latitudes; equatorial region
- 猛者 (もさ) - tough guy; wild one; fearless fighter
- 共和国 (きょうわこく) - republic; commonwealth
- 海水浴 (かいすいよく) - swimming in the ocean; sea bathing; seawater bath; going for a dip in the ocean
- ロケ地 (ロケち) - local site; location for making or filming a movie
- 住まい (すまい) - dwelling; house; residence; address; living; life
- はみ出る (はみでる) - to protrude; to stick out; to jut out; to hang out; to bulge out
- 未 (み) - prefix meaning not yet; un-
- 後頭部 (こうとうぶ) - back of head
- 絶壁 (ぜっぺき) - flat head
- ラッコ - sea otter
- カワウソ - river otter
- イタチ - weasel
- 毛づくろい (けづくろい) - grooming oneself (esp. animals); mutual grooming (e.g. monkeys); social grooming; personal grooming
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