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Tanuki Scroll XXIV: 石合戦 
Read today’s Hyakumonogatari historic tale (dunno why I wrote Hyakumonogatari) from Shizuoka Prefecture!
A story about Tokugawa Ieyasu [徳川家康]. Two groups of kids are set against each other in a stone-throwing battle (sounds kinda painful), Red vs. White. The Red team has twice as many competitors, so they are in favour of winning, but Ieyasu states that White will win because they are putting in more effort to compensate for the number difference, whereas only half the Red team seem to be putting in any effort.
Book Haul! (okay it's only two books)
Traditional colours of Japan!
With all the colour-talk having me intrigued I thought I’d get myself a book. Each colour has a description of how it was traditionally used and if it has any meanings behind it, it’s all in Japanese but the colour names have English translations, for reasons I’m not sure of since everything else is in Japanese? There’s HEX codes too, so that’ll be helpful. I won’t be using it as daily reading for this challenge as it’s mostly an aid for my art but I practically do that every day anyway so it’ll be like daily reading.
Musashi!
It’s all in English, there’s some Japanese but it’s all translated. But I saw this and just had to get it. I mean, the complete works of Musashi! Most accurate translation yet! Some of his works that have never been translated before! Bonus ukiyo-e pictures!! YES
☆ Learnings ☆
New Words
石合戦「いしがっせん」ー Stone-throwing fight
見定める「みさだめる」ー To make sure of; to confirm
のんびり ー At leisure; Carefree; Relaxed
バラバラ ー Scattered; Dispersed; Disconnected (onomatopoeia)
Names
松平竹千代「まつだいらたけちよ」ー Tokugawa Ieyasu’s birth name ( Matsudaira Takechiyo)
Places
駿府「すんぷ」ー Sunpu, Shizuoka
安倍川 「あべかわ」ー Abe River
Forgotten Readings
家来「けらい」(Retainer; Servant)
Forgotten Meanings
果敢「かかん」(Resolute; Determined)
I came across this word in the wild the other day and wondered the same thing! It’s a really nice word.