📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

Zakarius · January 15, 2023, 6:11pm

January 15th
新書太閣記 progress: 01.89% // Volume I: 21.95%

Short read today!

Words found under the kotatsu

密接「みっせつ」ー Intimate; close; near
攀じ登る「よじのぼる」ー To climb/clamber up/over; to scramble; to scale; to claw your way up
火縄「ひなわ」ー Fuse; cord
物蔭「ものかげ」ー Place hidden from view; cover; shelter; hiding place

Forms
辷る＝滑る「すべる」(to slide; to glide; to slip)
(Not seen this one before, it looks a lot cooler than the 滑る version)

Character Name List

for easy referencing later, because these will take some remembering
Also probably some spoilers, but this is a historic novel, so can spoilers really exist for things that have (for the most part) actually happened

Main
Hideyoshi: 豊臣秀吉「とよとみひでよし」
– – – Childhood name: 日吉「ひよし」
– – – Childhood nickname: 猿「さる」

Volume I: 1534 - 15??
日吉「ひよし」- Hideyoshi (as child)
Nickname: 猿「さる」

Family
木下弥右衛門「きのしたやえもん」- Father
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

Others
織田信秀「おだのぶひで」- Daimyo
– 織田与三郎「おだよさぶろう」- Younger brother
今川義元「いまがわよしもと」- Daimyo
斯波義統「しばよしむね」- Daimyo (head of the Shiba clan) at Kiyosu castle

Historical People

阿倍仲麻呂「あべのなかまろ」ー Japanese scholar & poet (around 700AD)
白楽天「はくきょい」ー Late 700s Chinese poet (Bai Juyi / Bo Juyi) also known as: 白楽天「はくらくてん」in Japan.
道元「どうげん」(or 道元禅師「どうげんぜんじ」ー Japanese Buddhist Priest, writer & poet (Early to mid 1200s) (also known as 栄西禅師「えいさいぜんじ」)
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 to early 800s)

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