📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

Japanese Language Reading
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Day 57
Continued reading the Tsugumomo manga. It was one of my favorite arcs in the manga, for once I wasn’t bored reading it.

4026 pages read

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February 27th & 28th (Days 58 & 59) :snowflake: :cat2:

Home post :books:

この本を盗む者は (16 - 17%)

Very tiny reads these past two days because I needed a little break from reading. Spent that time playing Octopath instead (it’s such a damn vibe). But anyways…

I made it to the end of the challenge! :partying_face: :cat2:

Challenge achievements: I’ve completed my very first Japanese book, and then another (if I can count 1Q84 Book 1 前編 as a book). Although I feel like I could’ve definitely done more (too many lazy days with small bits of reading), I am incredibly happy with my progress :3 I mean, this is two Japanese books more than I’ve ever read. Finding it a little hard to believe. Third time really was the charm :smile:

Wall of Shame: I planned to read Russian every day, too. But I just… Forgot :person_facepalming: I wonder if I can still read Cyrillic after all these weeks… Oh boi…

I am planning to continue in March, as I fear I may just forget to read altogether if I don’t continue every day :sweat_smile: I’m excited to continue this journey with those who are sticking around, and looking forward to seeing everyone else in another challenge :3

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February 28th!

Today I read Chapter 10 of God Bless the Mistaken, and finished Volume 2.
It was nice to finish off the challenge with another finished volume. :slight_smile:

(Home Post)

End of Challenge Summary: 100% :tada:

Jan
月 火 水 木 金 土 日
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02 03 04 05 06 07 08
09 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
Feb
月 火 水 木 金 土 日
01 02 03 04 05
06 07 08 09 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28

Books Completed

  • Happiness - Volume 8-9
  • Shadows House - Volume 4
  • Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun - Volume 1
  • Cells at Work - Volume 1
  • Orange - Volume 6
  • Teasing Master Takagi-san - Volume 10
  • God Bless the Mistaken - Volume 2

How is it the last day of the challenge already!? It’s gone by so quickly!
I’ve finished 8 volumes of manga so far this year, which feels like a good number.
So far this year I’ve learned that there IS a limit to how many bookclubs I can juggle at once… :sweat_smile: But also that I can stubbornly push forward when faced with a mountain of reading to do, even when some of it feels very difficult!

Its been a great start to the year, and I hope everyone else has had as much fun as I have. Thanks, as always, to @windupbird for hosting, and to everyone for sharing your updates, it’s really motivating, and my to-read list is forever expanding from your recommendations!

I’ll be continuing to post throughout March, but for those who aren’t, I look forward to seeing you again for the Spring Challenge. :slight_smile:

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2023-03-01T01:12:00Z

I only read one complete volume of manga [会長はメイド様！１] in this reading challenge. I ended up selecting a manga [ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん １] that turned out to be too hard for me to read so I haven’t yet finished the replacement option [FAIRY TAIL 1]. This year, I seemed to have picked mostly wordy manga so far. It’s been quite a challenge but I’ve managed to push through most of it. I’ve been reading much more slowly as a result which is why I’m only on the brink of finishing my second volume for the year. I skipped three days as well, one to attend my sister’s birthday party and two separate days because I didn’t want to stop reading the English book I was reading at the time.

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:spiral_calendar: Day 58: February 27th :ice_cube:

spacer:girl: からかい上手の(元)高木さん Volume 11 (45% ➨ 52%)

Busy week so far. Looks like I’ll be just barely getting my reading in later tonight as well.

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Summary post

Day 57: February 26th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ :penguin:
How much did I read?: 7 pages
How long did it take me?: 35 minutes

Day 58: February 27th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ :penguin:
How much did I read?: 4 pages
How long did it take me?: 14 minutes

Day 59: February 28th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ :penguin:
How much did I read?: 5 pages
How long did it take me?: 22 minutes

Limping across the finish line here HAHA QUITE LITERALLY BECAUSE I STUBBED MY TOE ON A CART TODAY AND TOTALLY BROKE MY TOE NAIL/MADE MYSELF BLEED SOMEHOW, but I did manage to slightly pull it together and read something for the last few days of the challenge :joy: I feel bad I kind of went MIA for this second half :upside_down_face: Overall, I read 44/59 days, which isn’t terrible for this time of year but also not the best lol. I finished 3 manga volumes and read ~140 pages of Penguin Highway (which is a little less than half the book - honestly not bad considering I only started it about a month ago and my reading days have been less than consistent in this second half of the challenge). Looking back at what all I read made me miss my sweet magic man Rei :sob: I want another volume of that to come out :upside_down_face:

Anyway, that’s a wrap on the Winter Challenge! :tada: Congratulations to everyone who’s made it this far - whether you read a little or a lot, I hope you got something out of the challenge and enjoyed your time in the thread :3 As usual, I’ll be taking a break in March (I think I might try to focus on English reading, actually :eyes:), but I’ll still be around lurking and liking posts from those of you who are continuing on! As usual, everyone can feel free to post in this thread until the next challenge starts on April 1st - hope to see you guys again in the spring :grin:

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I did the week one reading for レベル７ and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Very mysterious set up - looking forward to how it plays out! It’s a faster read than I was expecting, partially because it’s paperback (so any words to look up takes a smidge more time) and partially because my last 宮部みゆき book had a decent number of lookups, but it’s been smooth!

There’s something so satisfying about a physical book, and an older copy especially :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: Aged paper just smells good.

Edit: Oh and happy end of challenge! I’ll probably stick around with any stragglers who just like posting about their reading every day :sweat_smile:

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Home

  • through the end of vol 3 of アタック!! This series began in 2007, and volleyball terminology must have changed between then and 2012 when HQ and 2.43 began, because there are some terms they use in addition to or instead of the ones I’m used to. They’ll still say “receive,” but they’ll also call them “cuts.” I have yet to see ワンタッチ abbreviated as ワンチ. Middle blockers are called centers, and (wing) spikers are called (side) attackers. In this, they say that the opposite hitter (right wing spiker) is the pillar of the team and is known as the super ace, whereas usually it’s one of the two left wing spikers who’s the ace and the pillar of the team—and a super ace is just, well, an ace who’s a cut above the rest. A genius ace, if you will. I have two more volleyball series; I wonder where they’ll fall, terminology-wise.
  • 22 pages of この本を盗む者は, leaving off on pg 88. Finished ch 1 and started ch 2!
  • played a bit of ねこ島物語 and きみのまち ポルティア
Some vocab of note:

方針 (ほうしん) [n.] policy; course; plan (of action); principle. From the original meaning of “magnetic needle” (I’m assuming from the kanji a compass needle).

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:chocolate_bar: :love_letter: ２月２８日 :love_letter: :chocolate_bar: (Home Post Link)

Welp! We did it! Another challenge in the books! Congrats, everyone! Whether you managed to read every day or not, I hope you feel like you got some good practice in! I’ve loved reading everyone’s updates, and it really really is true that having a group of people working on the same sorts of goals can be motivating; It definitely was for me this challenge. More than a few days where I dragged myself out of bed to go read my chapter of 三ツ星カラーズ, do some anki, and post a quick update. :sweat_smile:

Missed no days, and ended up reading 12 volumes of manga (and change), 3 children’s books, 1 short story, and 1 short visual novel.

Read:

  • 夜カフェ pg 145 → 169 DONE! - oh man it feels good to finish this finally, it feels like I’ve been nibbling on it forever. Wanted to end off the challenge proper with a bang though
  • 三ツ星カラーズ ch 25

Word of the Day:
呼び捨てにする 「よびすてにする」ー to address (someone) without using a suffix such as “-san” or “-chan”; to refer to (someone) without a title suffix

February Goals

:white_check_mark: Finish 夜カフェ vol 1
:white_check_mark: Finish ホリミヤ and pick a new easy manga before the ABBC and BBC
:negative_squared_cross_mark: Pass the ９級 full mock test in the kanken game
:negative_squared_cross_mark: Finish parts 1 and 2 of 新完全マスター N3 reading book

I did, finally, at long last, finish ホリミヤ. Originally a stretch goal to try to finish in December, I managed to stretch it out until February :laughing: It took a little bit of extra work on the last day, but I also managed to finish 夜カフェ volume 1! For manga this month I read about 5 volumes in total, as well as joined the ABBC and BBC book clubs and start with those readings.

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I didn’t end up deciding to work too much on the 9級 test, because I was still struggling with some stuff on 10級, but I did manage to do some writing practice every day, and passed the full 40 minute 10級 test last week! Definitely getting easier to work with. Current in game time is about 8 hours + a few extra hours of writing practice outside the game. Level 10 might “only” be 80 kanji, but at the end of the day that’s still going from not knowing how to write any kana to being able to comfortably do hiragana, katakana (less comfortably), and those 80 kanji, so I’m still pretty happy with my progress here.

Then for the 新完全マスター series… I basically dropped the ball on this one. I did about 5 days worth of lessons, which isn’t nothing! But it’s definitely not as much as I’d hoped to get done.

Overall Challenge Goals

Now, when I wrote my goals in my original post, I was envisioning the end of March as a time frame, since I was planning to not take that month off (like I did with december in the winter challenge), so here’s progress towards those:

  • Finish every volume of manga I currently physically own in 2023 - I have read 12 volumes of manga this year, which still puts me ahead of pace for completing this by the end of the year!
  • I want to transition into reading more stuff which is pure text. - This one is an unqualified success already. Read 2 magic treehouse books, 1 japanese original childrens book, a short visual novel, and also a short story!
  • finish working through the 新完全マスター読解N3 - again, I have sort of dropped the ball on this one, but there’s still time for march! I don’t know about finishing the whole book by then, but I could certainly make a sizeable dent in it.

March Goals:
I think both trying to read 夜カフェ and work on 新完全マスター ended up being a little too much for me this month, so I think I’m going to take march off from trying to read a book book and just focus on those.

  • Do some 新完全マスター N3 reading every day - Not going to set a hard goal on this because some sections are wildly different difficulty depending on how familiar I am with the concepts already
  • Pass ９級 kanken test
  • Keep up the manga streak - I was hoping to do 3月のリオン in ３月, but I think that might be a bit much to bite off for me right now, so I’ll keep going with the book clubs and with 三ツ星カラーズ. I think I’d like to finish that series in March, though, so I can actually do 四月は君の嘘 in 四月 :laughing:

I’ll still be hanging around through march again, but for everyone who’s taking a break I hope to see you all again in April! :tada:

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:performing_arts: Home :switzerland:

February 28th

ジョジョの奇妙な冒険10
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不可解(ふかかい)なぼくのすべてを 1
23 - 47

My deadlines are approaching at work and I think I’m on time. Hopefully that means I’ll have more time for reading soon.

不可解(ふかかい) did get a bit better, so I’m even more hopefully now with encouragement from the folks who have already read it. I also like that it doesn’t have furigana. It feels like a more real test of my reading skills.

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February 28 :snowflake: Home Post

A pretty neutral day for the technical end of the challenge; I played some more Steins;Gate and made it through the wall of science terminology I was in the middle of :joy: some things are very consistent across spike chunsoft games haha. Back to the Future appeared yet again today, though not by name this time :laughing:

Anyway I’ll be sticking around for the next month like usual, so no big wrap-up post for now. I might do some reflection in the next couple of days if the mood strikes, but otherwise I’ll see you guys in March and/or the next challenge! :grin:

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February 28 :heavy_check_mark: :cityscape:

ユートロニカのこちら側 , 51-59%

I really wanted to finish the chapter yesterday, and have the day free for 半落ち today, but sleep is important too.

February Recap

This month didn’t go as well as I hoped, but it did have its highlights. I finished 3 books, and made good progress in two others. I missed two days of reading, but I had a day when I read 72 pages, and another when I read 124, both a record for me. I read a total of 805 pages this month, which seems little next to January’s 1110, but still not bad at all.

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:open_book: :desktop_computer: :snowman_with_snow: :snowflake: February 28

Read 2 chapters of オレンジ for the club.

The challenge is over!! This time I happily didn’t miss any days, irl stuff not being crazy really helps in that department.
During this challenge I read ユージニア, which was a decently big book for me, I finished the 青のフラッグ manga series and followed the オレンジ club, started but dropped この本を盗む者は and I’ve been following along the BU$TAFELLOWS club which has been lots of fun. Mi goals for the near future are to keep up with the clubs I’m in (B$, Orange, IBC) and go back to reading わたしの幸せな結婚 which I stopped reading because of life getting a bit crazy.

Right now I have the energy to keep reading every day but I know from experience it’s better for me to take this month a bit less strictly even if in practice I read basically every day, so I can come back stronger in the next challenge. I’ll still be reading everyone’s updates in March since I love the motivation!

Good challenge everyone!

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Wow the Winter challenge is over, what a ride!

I’m glad to report that I read a total of 16 manga volumes. 2 per week. Didn’t miss a single day and created a nice reading habit.

Looking forward to a Spring version if anyone else is up to. In any case I’ll just keep tracking my reading habit on Learn Natively and my personal Study log here in the forums, in form of Read Everyday Challenge - Spring Edition.

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February

Home Post

Pages read:

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This month I read 617 pages in slightly over 60 hours, at a pace of 10.1 pages per hour.
Total: 1514 pages read, 8486 pages to go.
Unfortunately I did not read as much as I planned to in order to reach my goal of 10,000 pages, so the daily average increased to 28 pages going forward.

Finished books:

  • :pirate_flag: Flesh&Blood Vol. 11 (with the F&B club; finished Feb 3rd)
  • :pirate_flag: Flesh&Blood Bonus Material for Vol. 6 (with the F&B club; finished Feb 10th)
  • :pirate_flag: Flesh&Blood Bonus Material for Vol. 8 (with the F&B club; finished Feb 23rd)

Abandoned books:

  • :books:   この本を盗む者は (with the ABC)

Ongoing books:

  • :sleeping_bed:   夢十夜 by 夏目蒼石 (for the literature circle)
  • :waning_gibbous_moon:   1Q84 Book 1.2 (with the 1Q84 book club)
  • :cityscape:   ユートロニカのこちら側 (with the Compulsive Readers club)
  • :pirate_flag:   Flesh&Blood Bonus Material for Vol. 9 (with the F&B club)
  • :cat2:   世界から猫が消えたなら (my new sauna book)
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Mar 1, Wed of Week 10 of Winter Q1 2023 :snowman::snowflake:

  • うたわれるもの

Extra-content pages increase. Expecting to know secrets of MC now.

  • ふしぎの国のバード Vol.8 Ch.36-40 + extra (whole volume)
Words of the day
  • かいつまんで = summing up. From the verb 掻(か)い摘(つま)む.
  • がらんと(.) = (on-mim) empty; deserted
  • ズラかる(.) = to run away; to flee
  • こじ開(あ)ける = to wrench open = 抉(こ)じ開(あ)ける
  • ぼた餅(もち) = adzuki bean covered mochi = 牡丹餅(ぼたもち). Seems to be similar to お萩(はぎ).
  • 晴々(はればれ) = cheerful. As expected, れ can be collapsed to Kanji.
  • 爪研(つめと)ぎ = claw sharping; scratching nails on a post
  • 折(お)り入(い)って = earnestly (beg for)
  • 心(こころ)ゆくまで = to one’s heart’s content
  • 徒労(とろう) = fruitless efforts
  • 変(か)わり者(もの) = an oddball. Not yet in the past as 変(か)わった?
  • 儲(もう)け物(もの) = a godsend; an unexpected benefit
  • 晴(は)れ着(ぎ) = one’s best clothes
  • 馭者(ぎょしゃ) = postilion; coachman; horse cart driver = 御者(ぎょしゃ). The Kanji 馭(ぎょ) seems to be replaceable with 御(ぎょ).
  • 浪漫(ろうまん) = romance; romantism; great undertaking = ロマン
  • 印籠(いんろう) = pill box. Second Kanji is 籠(かご) (= basket).
  • 金箔(きんぱく) = gold foil; gold leaf. 箔(はく) itself is foil, e.g. アルミ箔(はく).
  • 習(なら)わし = customary practice = しきたり
  • 親孝行(おやこうこう) = filial piety
  • 柔和(にゅうわ) = gentle; tender. I thought of ジュウ first, as in 柔道(じゅうどう).
  • 滅相(めっそう)もない = that’s out of question; absurd / don’t mention it = とんでもない.
  • 不道徳(ふどうとく) = impropriety; immorality
  • 勘当(かんどう) = disowning. Yeah, it sounds like 感動(かんどう) (= being moved emotionally).
  • 永久(とこしえ) = eternity. Has Furigana, indicating the reading (besides えいきゅう and とわ). Also, dedicated JJ dictionary entry. I might have seen both readings somewhere before, とことん and いにしえ perhaps.
  • 目星(めぼし) = objective; goal. Also on a map in context. In contrast, 図星(ずぼし) would also be right on the mark.
  • 遡行(そこう) = going upstream; sailing against the current. Has Furigana. First Kanji is 遡(さかのぼ)る.
  • 土石流(どせきりゅう) = landslide; avalanche. Last two Kanji switched is 流石(さすが).
  • 落石(らくせき) = rockslide
  • 篠突(しのつ)く雨(あめ) = a torrential rain. Rain that can pass through a sheet of 篠(しの) (= bamboo grass). Other readings of the first Kanji include ささ, both seen in names.
  • 千鳥足(ちどりあし) = drunken staggering gait. First two Kanji is 千鳥(ちどり) = plover, a kind of bird.
  • 万博(ばんぱく) = international exposition; world fair = 万国博覧会(ばんこくはくらんかい)
  • 大道芸(だいどうげい) = street performance
  • 衝撃(しょうげき) = impact, can be emotionally too (being moved emotionally)
  • 胸(むね)を打(う)つ = to be touching; to be moved emotionally

Winter Challenge Wrap-up

  • 1.7 manga series completed [1]
  • 1 book with audiobook, read thoroughly [2]
  • VN almost ended of 1 series, perhaps. [3]

To me, I made it to the Challenge everyday to make sure I make a progress in collecting vocabularies and reading sentences carefully (where I can’t yet do well with listening). Also, I need a place to write down vocabularies. Keeping vocabularies as original as much as appropriate, but meanings and interpretations are of my own.

Habit making first, I may say. I don’t really dump difficulty to this one, because not really my focus, so not a place to put too excessive energy. But I learnt a lot of vocabularies, remembering many of them too.

I thank you @windupbird for hosting this Every Day challenge as always. (1 ½ years already?) Also, @Redglare for starting the first.

    • はたらく細胞 Black [8/8]
    • ふしぎの国のバード [7/10]
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    • ガラスのうさぎ
    ↩︎

  3. うたわれるもの (around 60 hours) ↩︎

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:raccoon: :books: The Tanuki Kotatsu Reading Den :snowflake: :raccoon:

March 1st
新書太閣記 progress: 14.37% // Volume II: 62.69% :crossed_swords:

Congrats to everyone who participated this time, it’s been great to see how much progress everyone has made!

Hope to see you guys in the next one, until then, 頑張って my March friends :raccoon:

Words found under the kotatsu

海沿い「うみぞい」ー Seashore; coast; coastland
無造作「むぞうさ」ー Easy; simple; off-hand; easy-going

Character Name List

Probably some spoilers, but this is a historic novel, so can spoilers really exist for things that have (for the most part) actually happened :thinking:

Volume I: 1535 - 1555

日吉「ひよし」- Hideyoshi (as child)
Nicknames: 猿「さる」/ 針売り「はりうり」
Name serving Nobunaga: 木下 藤吉郎「きのした とうきちろう」

Family
木下弥右衛門「きのした やえもん」- Father
– – 乙若「おとわか」- Old friend (serves under 織田)
筑阿弥「ちくあみ」ー Step-father
大政所「おおまんどころ」// also お奈加「おなか」ー Mother
おつみ - Older sister
小竹「こちく」- Baby brother
加藤清正「かとう きよまさ」// also 弾正「だんじょう」- Ojisan (only distantly related (before marriage))
– Married to: おえつ (sister of お奈加)

Friends & Acquaintances
仁王「におう」- Big kid friend
於福「おふく」(Nickname - full name: 福太郎「ふくたろ」) // 楊景福「ようけいふく」(Chinese name/birth name) - Timid kid friend (older than Hideyoshi)
– 五郎大夫 「ごろ だゆう」// 祥瑞「しょうずい」(Chinese name) - Father
– 梨琴「りきん」- Mother
捨次郎「すてじろう」- Previous servant to 五郎, later the adoptive father of 於福, and owner of a tea ware shop - and employer of, and master to, Hideyoshi

Hachisuka Clan
蜂須賀小六「はちすか ころく」(also 正勝 「まさかつ」) - Head of the Hachisuka clan
– 七内「なない」- Younger brother
– Married to 松波「まつなみ」
– – 亀一「かめいち」- Son

Retainers:
稲田大炊助「いなだ おおいのすけ]
青山新七「あおやま しんしち」
長井半之丞「ながい はんのじょう」
松原内匠「まつばら たくみ」

Others:
国吉「くによし」- Gunsmith/blacksmith
渡辺天蔵「わたなべ てんぞう」- Deserter - Nobushi (Nephew to Koroku)
難波内記「なんば ないき」- Spy disguised as a Komuso
仁田彦十「にった ひこじゅう」- Subordinate

(蜂須賀正利「はちすか まさとし」- previous head of the Hachisuka clan)

Saito Clan
((questionable) Alliance with the Hachisuka clan)
斎藤 道三「さいとう どうさん」- Head of the Saito clan
– 斎藤義龍「さいとう よしたつ」(also: 高政「たかまさ」) - Son

明智 光秀「あけち みつひで」(common name: 十兵衛「じゅうべい」) - serves under Dosan
– 又市「またいち」- Underling / foot soldier

堀田 道空「ほった どうくう」- Chief retainer
弥平治光春「やへいじ みつはら」- Retainer (cousin to Jyubei)
– 明智光安「あけち みつやす」- Father
春日丹後「かすが たんご」- Military commander

Oda Clan
織田 信長「おだ のぶなが」- Leader of the Oda clan (Married to the daughter of Saito Dosan)
– 卯月「うづき」- Nobunaga’s faithful, old horse :horse:
– 織田信秀「おだ のぶひで」- Father and previous leader of the Oda clan
– – 織田与三郎「おだ よさぶろう」- Younger brother
– – 織田信行「おだ のぶかつ」(Other name: 信成「のぶなり」) - Son (half-brother to Nobunaga (different mother))

Retainers (Under Nobuhide rule):
平手 政秀「ひらて まさひで」
– 五郎左衛門「ごろうざえもん」(nickname: 五郎左「ごろうざ」) - First son
– 監物「けんもつ」- Second son
– 甚左衛門「じんざえもん」- Third son
– 雨宮勘解由「あめみや かげゆ」- Servant
林 秀貞「はやし ひでさだ」(common name: 新五郎「しんごろ」/ nickname: 佐渡「さどう」) (served under Nobunaga too)
– 美作守「みまさかのかみ」- Younger brother
青山 信昌「あおやま のぶまさ」(common name: 与三右衛門「よそうえもん」)
内藤 勝介「ないとう しょうすけ / かつすけ」

Retainers (Under Nobunaga rule):
柴田勝家「しばた かついえ」(Nickname: 権六「ごんろく」)

Others:
市川大介「いちかわ だいすけ」- Archery master/instructor
平田三位「ひらた さんみ」- Master of military strategy
浅野又右衛門「あさの またえもん」- Military commander
– 寧子「ねね」- Daughter
がんまく - Former worker/servant, friend of Hideyoshi

Shiba Clan
斯波義統「しば よしむね」- Head of the Shiba clan, at Kiyosu castle
– 斯波義銀「しば よしかね」- Son

Imagawa Clan
今川義元「いまがわ よしもと」- Daimyo

Retainers:
松下之綱「まつした ゆきつな」(common name: 加兵衛「かへい」)
飯尾豊前「いのお ぶぜん」
多賀能八郎「たがのう はしろう」(nickname: 能八「のうはち」)

Takeda Clan
太郎義信「たけだ よしのぶ」- Commander
(Married to the daughter of Imagawa Yoshimoto to tie the clans)

Non-affiliated
上泉 信綱「かみいずみ のぶつな」(also: 上泉 伊勢守「かみいずみ いせのかみ」) - Founder of the 新陰流「しんかげりゅう」school of Kenjutsu
– 疋田小伯「ひきた しょうはく」- Disciple
– 神後五六郎「かんご ごろくろう」- Disciple

塚原 卜伝「つかはら ぼくでん」- Kensei; legendary swordsman

Historical People

  • 阿倍仲麻呂「あべ の なかまろ」ー Japanese scholar & poet (700s)

  • 白楽天「はく きょい」ー Chinese poet (Bai Juyi / Bo Juyi) also known as: 白楽天「はく らくてん」in Japan. (Late 700s)

  • 道元「どうげん」(or 道元禅師「どうげん ぜんじ」ー Japanese Buddhist Priest, writer & poet (also known as 栄西禅師「えいさい ぜんじ」) (Early / mid 1200s)

  • 空海「くうかい」ー The one and only Kukai or Kobo Daishi - a Buddhist monk. Posthumously given the title of: 弘法大師「こうぼう だいし」born as: 佐伯 眞魚「さえき の まお」(late 700s / early 800s)

  • 源頼政「みなもと の よりまさ」ー Prominent poet and warrior (1100s)

  • 平 重盛「たいら の しげもり」ー Military commander and court noble, claimed to be an ancestor of Oda Nobunaga (Mid-1100s)

  • 桓武（天皇）「かんむ（てんのう）」ー 50th Emperor of Japan, claimed to be an ancestor of Taira no Shigemori, thus ancestor to Oda Nobunaga (Mid-Late 700s)

Volume II: 1555 - 15??
(currently 1561)

Oda Clan
織田 信長「おだ のぶなが」- Head of the Oda clan
– 織田 信広「おだ のぶひろ」- Older brother
– 織田 信行「おだ のぶゆき」(also: 信勝「のぶかつ」) - Younger brother
– 織田 お市「おだ おいち」- Younger sister

木下 藤吉郎「きのした とうきちろう」- Hideyoshi
– 木股 権三「きまた ごんぞう」(Nickname: ごんぞ) - Servant

Military Commanders
浅野 又右衛門「あさの またえもん」
– 寧子「ねね」- Daughter
柴田 勝家「しばた かついえ」(nickname: 権六「ごんろく」)
池田 恒興「いけだ つねおき」(Common name: 勝三郎「かつさぶろう」)
林 秀貞「はやし ひでさだ」
佐久間 盛重「さくま もりしげ」(also know as: 大学「だいがく」)
山口 守孝「やまぐち もりたか」(also known as: 海老丞「えびのじょう」)
柘植 友顕「つげ ともあき」(also known as: 玄蕃「げんば」)
梶川 一秀「かじかわ かずひで」
佐久間 信辰「さくま のぶとき」

Retainers
佐久間 盛政「さくま もりまさ」(nickname: 玄蕃「げんば」)
森 可成「もり よしなり」(Other name: 三左衛門「さんざえもん」)
– 蘭丸「らんまる」- Son

Others
山淵 右近「やまぶち うこん」- Magistrate
– 山淵 義遠「やまぶち よしとお」- Father (Chief Vassal)
戸部 新左衛門「とべ しんざえもん」- Castle commander
水野 帯刀「みずの たてわき」- Castle Guard
服部 一忠「はっとり かずただ」(also called: 小平太「こへいた」) - Samurai

Maeda Clan
Military Commanders
前田 利家「まえだ としいえ」(childhood name: 犬千代「いぬちよ」)
– 佐脇 良之「さわき よしゆけ」(also known as: 藤八郎「とうはちろう」) - Younger brother

Saito Clan
Military Commanders
斎藤 義龍「さいとう よしさつ」(also: 高政「たかまさ」)
– 孫四郎「まごしろう」- Brother
– 喜平次「きへいじ」- Brother
– 斎藤 道三「さいとう どうさん」- Father

Akechi Clan
Military Commanders
明智 光秀「あけち みつひで」(common name: 十兵衛「じゅうべい」)
明智 光安「あけち みつやす」- Also the adoptive father of Jyubei
– 明智 秀満「あけち ひでみつ」- Son, and retainer to Jyubei

Imagawa Clan
今川 義元「いまがわ よしもと」- Daimyo
– 今川 氏真「いまがわ うじざね」- Son, and heir to the Imagawa clan
– 太原 雪斎「たいげん せっさい」- Uncle, military advisor and monk

Military Commanders
伊丹 康直「いたみ やすなお」(also known as: 権阿弥「ごんあみ」)
庵原 忠縁「いはら ただより」(also known as: 将監「しょうげん」)
斎藤 利澄「さいとう としずみ」(also known as: 掃部介「かぶのすけ」)

Others
徳川 家康「とくがわ いえやす」(Childhood name: 竹千代「たけちよ」// Other name: 元康「もとやす」) - Soldier
– 築山「つきやま」- Wife
– 榊原 忠政「さかきばら ただまさ」- Vassal
– 石川 数正「いしかわ かずまさ」- Loyal follower
朝比奈 主計「あさひな かずえ」- Samurai

Takeda Clan
武田 信玄「たけだ しんげん」- Daimyo

Asakura Clan
朝倉 義景「あさくら よしかげ」- Daimyo

Sakai Clan
Military Commanders
酒井 正親「さかい まさちか」(also known as: 与四郎「よしろう」)

Matsudaira Clan
Military Commanders
松平 親俊「まつだいら ちかとし」(also known as: 左馬助「さまのすけ」)
杉浦 吉貞「すぎうら よしさだ」(also known as: 八郎五郎「はちろうごろう」)

Non-affiliated
鵜殿 甚七「うど (の) じんしち」- Mountain priest (Yamabushi)

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:spiral_calendar: Day 59: February 28th :umbrella:

spacer:scream: 古見さんは、コミュ症です。 Volume 1 (10% ➨ 26%)

Two-Month Progress

Completed volumes (in alphabetic order):

Partially completed volumes:

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Well, first month went okayish until it didn’t but second month was not really good but overall still better than usual. But it’s always like that for me haha. Though I think it definitely helped me read more. I’ll try to continue pushing myself more.

I did finish Spirit Circle but still not Yoichi lol but I’m close.
46/59 days, hoping to get more in the next challenge :v:

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:bookmark: Home post // March 1

・この本を盗む者は (7% → 9%)

Finished week 1 of book club (almost wrote chapter 1 but that’s not quite right).

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