Day 39: February 8th
365日にっぽんのいろ図鑑
Time spent: 17 min
Today’s color: 鶯色 (うぐいすいろ) - olive green; greenish brown
Another bird color! You know what that means…
Another chance to post a cute bird picture 
@Zakarius !! Same bird :o
Good words
- 鶯 (うぐいす) - Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale
- 常連 (じょうれん) - regular customer; regular patron; frequenter; constant companion
- くすむ - to be dark; to be dull; to be unassuming; to be inconspicuous; to not stand out
- 取り合わせ (とりあわせ) - an assortment; combination
- 褐色 (かっしょく) - dark brown; colour of tanned skin
- 鶯茶 (うぐいすちゃ) - greenish brown
- じっくり - deliberately; carefully; thoroughly; without rushing
まいにち暦生活 日本の暮らしを楽しむ365のコツ
Time spent: 10 min
Today’s reading was about 針供養 (はりくよう) - a memorial service for old needles. RIP, broken and rusty needles 
Today, people can bring their old needles (stabbed into tofu or konjac) and offer them at a shrine while praying for better sewing skills.
What else did I read?
海のどうぶつが可愛すぎて!
Amount read: 4 pages
Time spent: 28 min
This book is making me feel like a kid again 
I love sea animals you guys
Today, we delved into why one of our orca narrator friends is white. There are actually 2 ways that you can get white orcas - you can get leucistic orcas, with less pigment but still some coloration (so you can see the normal pattern etc. on the skin), or albino orcas with zero pigment and red eyes (our narrator friend is leucistic).
Here’s an irl leucistic orca isn’t he cute
This, of course, led to the question, is there an opposite condition? There is - melanism. Which gives us these pretty black penguins 
Good words - getting biological today
- 番外 (ばんがい) - extra (e.g. performance, item, object, etc.); additional
- 背びれ (せびれ) - dorsal fin
- ホクロ - mole; lentigo; beauty spot
- おへそ - belly button
- 胸びれ (むなびれ) - pectoral fin
- 肛門 (こうもん) - anus
- 生まれつき (うまれつき) - by nature; by birth; naturally; natural; innate
- 突然変異 (とつぜんへんい) - mutation (genetic)
- 個体 (こたい) - individual; specimen
- 白変種 (はくへんしゅ) - leucism; pigmentation loss
- 先天的 (せんてんてき) - inborn; innate; inherent; congenital; hereditary
- メラニズム - melanism
- 冥界 (めいかい) - hades; realm of the dead
- 魔物 (まもの) - demon; devil; evil spirit; monster; goblin; apparition
- 禍々しい (まがまがしい) - ominous; sinister; unlucky; ill-omened