📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄

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I missed a day on the 11th :sob::sob::sob: I fell asleep on the sofa earlier than usual that day and I didn’t get t do my nighttime reading :sob:I was so mad at myself for it lol but it’s okay, it probably means I needed the sleep
12/1 : 日本の歴史366, 20 min

since @fustian_garb mentioned this,

13/1: I got curious and looked for the app, and this is so interesting?? Thank you so much! I read through the intro for current season today🤩 but it took me so loooong there were many things to look up… I think I need the English version to double-check stuff
edit: also read some 30min of 歴史366

Good words

晩冬 ばんとう late winter
名残, 名残り なごり remains; traces | the sorrow of parting
途次 とじ on one’s way
白芥子 しらげし white mustard ?? some other sites give me it’s a poppy type of plant, i am confused…
形見 かたみ memento, keepsake
詠む よむ to compose (a Japanese poem)
寵愛 ちょうあい favor, favour, affection
空米 くうまい imaginary/ gamble rice ???

Explanation for this

Bruuuh, this got my brain all messed up because I just couldn’t grasp what this was about. Weblio and other sites had it as ‘rice that doesn’t exist’ and I was just lost. The opposite is ‘real rice’ 正米. Basically it’s all about rice that has been harvested (exists) and hasn’t been harvested yet (doesn’t exist). The whole concept involves forward selling/buying, with merchants promising in advance to clients a certain amount of rice for a cheaper price than the estimated in the market, when the rice would be available. Best example I found was here the whole thing called 空米取引, or generally 先物取引.

悲嘆 ひたん grief, sorrow

Forgotten words

尾張(國) Owari Province why did I forget this reading, I see it often in the history book…

Also, when looking for the plant, I came across a
誕生花 site with listed flowers for every bday here for anyone curious :eyes:

Mine is

ベニバナトキワマンサク
「紅花常盤満作」
Chinese fringe-flower
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