The Tanuki Kotatsu Reading Den 
January 3rd
新書太閣記 progress: 00.12% // Volume I: 01.44% 
I am so glad for furigana. So many place names. I forgot how hard it is to start a new book and you get bombarded with piles of new vocab until you get used to the author’s vocab usage.
Words found under the kotatsu
隣邦「りんぽう」ー Neighbouring country
国号「こくごう」ー Name of a country
国運「こくうん」ー National fortunes; destiny of a country
駆られる「かられる」ー To be driven by… (emotions / impulse / feelings); to be seized by; to be stricken with; to be spurred on by; to succumb to
気遣い「きづかい」ー Consideration; concern; worry
旦那様「だんなさま」ー Husband (honorific); master (of a house/shop etc.)
臥床「ふしど」ー Bedroom; bedchamber (seems to use 臥所 now)
榻「トン」ー Ceramic bench
宵「よい」ー Evening; early hours of the night
窯業「ようぎょう」ー Ceramics; ceramic industry
官窯「かんよう」ー (Government owned) porcelain furnace // with 窯「かま」meaning: kiln; furnace; stove
附随「ふずい」ー being accompanied by; being collateral with
殷賑「いんしん」ー Prosperity
辛苦「しんく」ー Hardship; toil
Places in China & Dynasties
揚子江「ようすこう」ー Yangtze river (also: 長江「ちょうこう」)
江西省「こうせいしょう」ー Jiangxi Province
饒州「じょうしゅう」ー Raozhou (old prefecture, now part of Poyang county (in Jiangxi))
唐「から」ー China (also used to sometimes refer to other neighbouring countries of that area) (Archaism) // also: 「とう」ー the Tang dynasty (618-907)
宋「そう」ー Song dynasty
廬山「るざん」ー Mt. Lushan
Character Kanji-Name List
for easy referencing later, because these will take some remembering
|| P E O P L E ||
Main
Hideyoshi: 豊臣秀吉「とよとみ ひでよし」// 豊太閤「ほうたいこう」
Side?
五郎大夫 「ごろ だゆう」
捨次郎「すてじろう」
梨琴「りきん」
Historical People
阿倍仲麻呂「あべ の なかまろ」ー Japanese scholar & poet (around 700AD)