Day 46: February 15th
365日にっぽんのいろ図鑑
Time spent: 17 min
Today’s color: 山葵色 (わさびいろ) - exactly what it sounds like, wasabi green
Today I learned that the word 薬味 has nothing to do with medicine 
Whoops
Good words
- サビ - how the cool kids say “wasabi” (jk lol, idk if it’s cool or not)
- 多年草 (たねんそう) - perennial plant
- 根茎 (こんけい) - rhizome; rootstalk
- すりおろす - to grate; to scrape off
- 山間 (さんかん) - among the mountains
- 原産 (げんさん) - place of origin; habitat
- 一般化 (いっぱんか) - generalization; popularization
- 薬味 (やくみ) - condiment (e.g. grated or chopped topping such as daikon, wasabi, ginger, green onion, red pepper); spice
- 浄瑠璃 (じょうるり) - type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)
- 義理人情 (ぎりにんじょう) - duty and humanity; (a sense of) moral obligation and humane feelings
- 機微 (きび) - subtleties; niceties; fine points; inner workings; secrets
- 訴えかける (うったえかける) - to make an appeal; to urge
- 比肩 (ひけん) - ranking equal with; comparing favourably with; comparing favorably with
- ツンと - pungently (of a smell); acridly; sharply
まいにち暦生活 日本の暮らしを楽しむ365のコツ
Time spent: 14 min
Today’s reading was about 春一番 (はるいちばん) - the first storm of spring/strong winds during the change from winter to spring. Apparently it often causes disasters, so that’s…not great 
What else did I read?
海のどうぶつが可愛すぎて!
Amount read: 8 pages
Time spent: 31 min
Polar bear time~
Today I learned that polar bears have black skin :o
Some good words
Creatures:
- ホッキョクグマ - polar bear
- オキゴンドウ - false killer whale I guess they’re friendly, but their teeth are low-key terrifying lol
- ハナゴンドウ - Risso’s dolphin they’re so cute
lil scratched-up babies 
Words:
- 生態系 (せいたいけい) - ecosystem
- 食物連鎖 (しょくもつれんさ) - food chain
- ポツポツ - here and there; scattered; dotted
- 種族 (しゅぞく) - species; genus; family
- 死骸 (しがい) - (dead) body; corpse; carcass; remains
- 互角 (ごかく) - equal (in ability); even; evenly matched; well-matched; on par (with)
- 温暖化 (おんだんか) - (global) warming (a cousin of our friend 地球温暖化 lol)
- 体つき (からだつき) - body build; figure
- すらっと - slender; slim
- 引っかき傷 (ひっかききず) - scratch; scratch mark
- うろうろ - to loiter; to drift; to hang about doing nothing; to wander aimlessly; to be restless
- 活発 (かっぱつ) - lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk
This sounds adorable 
Might have to add this to my list