14th feb
another ouran chapter, just one left in the volume now (plus a side story). little break between story arcs featuring a mischievous little タヌキ cos why not. also finished vol 1 of No. 6 and though the last chapter was considerably messier than the first two i’ll keep reading! also featured a page or so of a character reading from macbeth, somehow marking my second ‘shakespeare in japanese’ in a week 
more pages in the bakumatsu book, would have been more but i got sidetracked reading the wikipedia pages for huis ten bosch and nagasaki holland village
today’s nhk articles were this one and this one, plus the entries on せい and せめて in aDoIJG
words that stood out
桜蘭：
越中褌 - string loincloth
名案 - good idea
No. 6:
切開 - incision, operation, section
渾身 - putting in all one’s efforts, using one’s whole body
全快祝い - celebration of complete recovery from illness