📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

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The Tanuki Kotatsu Reading Den

January 4th
新書太閣記 progress: 00.19% // Volume I: 02.18%

Conversations here are the complete opposite of 吾輩は猫である, so short and to the point.

Words found under the kotatsu

下僕「げぼく」ー Manservant
祥瑞「しょうずい」ー Good omen
土匪「どひ」ー Local rebels
倭寇「わこう」ー Japanese pirates of the middle ages

It has kanji!
貴方「あなた」ー You // Also has male & female versions (both read as あなた): 貴男 & 貴女

Forms
欣ぶ ＝ 喜ぶ「よろこぶ」(To be delighted/glad)

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Character Kanji-Name List
for easy referencing later, because these will take some remembering

Main
Hideyoshi: 豊臣秀吉「とよとみ ひでよし」// 豊太閤「ほうたいこう」

Volume I Characters
五郎大夫 「ごろ だゆう」// 祥瑞「しょうずい」(Goro’s Chinese name)
– Servant of Goro: 捨次郎「すてじろう」
– Mother of Goro’s child: 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)

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Happy belated birthday @Cathm2 & @Hantsuki
And happy birthday @nyxqueenofshadows !