Day 25: January 25th
365日にっぽんのいろ図鑑
Time spent: 16 min
Today’s color: 丹色 (にいろ) - sort of an earthy red
Today’s color was not named for anything per se, but the reading talked about 丹頂鶴 (たんちょうづる) - red-crowned cranes, and I like those
I’m not trying to put birds in all my posts, it’s just happening
Some good words
- 幅広い (はばひろい) - extensive; wide; broad
- やや - a little; partially; somewhat; slightly; semi-; -ish; on the … side; a short time; a while
- 雅 (みやび) - refinement; elegance; grace
- 単なる (たんなる) - mere; simple; sheer
- とどまる - to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
- 梁 (はり) - beam; joist
まいにち暦生活 日本の暮らしを楽しむ365のコツ
Time spent: 10 min
Today’s reading talked about the coldest temperatures ever recorded in Japan (officially, it’s -41 degrees C). Apparently that is cold enough that you can hammer a nail with a banana (??? why is this a thing? 
There’s a commercial about it, and like multiple videos/blogs about it? Like…who is doing this, and why xD).
What else did I read?
お前、タヌキにならねーか? Vol 1
Amount read: 10 pages
Time spent: 31 min
Today’s chapter was so fun - we met a new character who is like…the anti-tanuki tanuki 
His name is 小豆丸 but he likes to be called AZ because he’s an angsty lord of darkness. He gives me 邪エナガ vibes He basically tries to push people over the edge, but he ends up doing the complete opposite and making them realize that life’s still worth living. So he’s like…terrible, but also I like him xD He fails so thoroughly at what he’s ostensibly trying to do that it’s kind of endearing. And also he gets smacked upside the head with a purse lmao
Here’s a random between-chapter illustration of him that made me laugh
Good words
- 巷では (ちまたでは) - kind of like “word on the street is…”
- 偽善者 (ぎぜんしゃ) - hypocrite; dissembler; wolf in sheep’s clothing; fox in a lamb’s skin
- ぐちゃぐちゃ - sloppy; untidy; in a disarray; chaotic
- 司る (つかさどる) - to rule; to govern; to administer
- 自業自得 (じごうじとく) - paying for one’s mistakes; getting one’s just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one’s own actions); reap what you sow