Day 44: February 13th
365日にっぽんのいろ図鑑
Time spent: 10 min
Today’s color: 薄香 (うすこう) - kind of a light beige-y color
Dyeing clothes with clove gets you this color (and some good-smelling clothes)
Good words
- 色味 (いろみ) - shade; tone; tinge; hue; color; tint
- 丁子 (ちょうじ) - clove
- 香木 (こうぼく) - fragrant wood; aromatic tree
- 常緑高木 (じょうりょくこうぼく) - tall, evergreen tree
- 熱帯 (ねったい) - tropics
- 珍重 (ちんちょう) - prizing; valuing highly; esteeming
まいにち暦生活 日本の暮らしを楽しむ365のコツ
Time spent: 6 min
Today’s reading was about ダイヤモンドダスト and how pretty and 幻想的 it is (I like this word - 幻想的 [げんそうてき] - fantastic; magical; wondrous; whimsical; fairytale-like; romantic). It can be written in kanji as 細氷 (さいひょう).
What else did I read?
海のどうぶつが可愛すぎて!
Amount read: 8 pages
Time spent: 38 min
Oh nooo, now we’re on seals 
I love seals D: I think I say that about every sea creature lol but it’s true, I love them all
This is probably the cutest thing I have seen today: orcas holding baby seals 
And also this friendly-looking walrus
Some good words
Creatures:
- スナメリ - black finless porpoise (why is this the most friendly-looking porpoise I love it so much)
- アシカ - eared seal (esp. the California sea lion, Zalophus californianus); sea lion
- オットセイ - fur seal (esp. the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus); Alaskan fur seal
- トド - Steller sea lion (big bois)
- セイウチ - walrus
- オタリア - South American sea lion (this sea lion pretty much writes kanji better than I do
) - タテゴトアザラシ - harp seal (smol )
Words:
- 飼育員 (しいくいん) - caretaker (at a zoo or aquarium); keeper; attendant; breeding staff
- おねだり - begging; pestering; pleading; coaxing
- 器官 (きかん) - organ (of body, plant, etc)
- 脂肪組織 (しぼうそしき) - adipose tissue
- 発する (はっする) - to let out; to utter; to produce; to emit; to give forth; to discharge
- パッと見 (ぱっとみ) - (at) a glance; (judging from) appearances
- 表紙 (ひょうし) - cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding
- ややこしい - puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
- ビュンビュン - with a whoosh; with a swish; with a whirl; whizzing by (my new favorite onomatopoeia)
- ふさふさ - in tufts; tufty; bushy; thick; luxuriant
- とぅるとぅる - couldn’t find this in the dictionary, but according to this, it probably meant “smooth” in this context (fur seals are ふさふさ, sea lions are とぅるとぅる)
- 這う (はう) - to crawl; to creep; to go on all fours
- 耳たぶ (みみたぶ) - earlobe the fact that this sounds like “ear tab” lol
- 混同 (こんどう) - confusion; mixing; merger
- いかつい - stern; grim; rough; rugged; forbidding; overbearing; square (shoulders)
- ぺたぺた - sound of a flat surface repeatedly making contact with something (the ぺたぺた of sea lion flippers xD)
But of course! Welcome! 
