Day 49: February 18th
365日にっぽんのいろ図鑑
Time spent: 14 min
Today’s color: 猩々緋 (しょうじょうひ) - scarlet
Named for the 猩々, a mythical beast reminiscent of a drunken orangutan this word can also mean orangutan, or a person who’s a heavy drinker 
Apparently this is the color of the 猩々’s blood. Popular with warriors on the battlefield.
Good words
- 想像上 (そうぞうじょう) - imaginary
- 霊獣 (れいじゅう) - sacred beast
- 鮮烈 (せんれつ) - vivid; striking
- 大航海時代 (だいこうかいじだい) - Age of Discovery; Age of Exploration (the big sailing period xD)
- 羅紗 (ラシャ) - felt; woollen cloth
- 愛用 (あいよう) - favorite; favourite; habitually used
- 鮮血 (せんけつ) - fresh blood
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 白魚 (しらうお) - icefish, which are auspicious in the spring? There’s a famous kabuki line about this, I guess Not really getting it but going along with it anyway 
I did learn a great word from this though, 名ゼリフ (めいゼリフ) - famous line (from a movie, book, etc.); famous quote
What else did I read?
海のどうぶつが可愛すぎて!
Amount read: 5 pages
Time spent: 28 min
Sharks sharks sharks~ Today’s chapter focused on megalodon, the biggest shark of them all :o Also got to see my buddy シュモク again, sort of xD
For those who don't know/remember, this is シュモク
He is not actually from this manga xD He’s from another shark manga I read in the first challenge and he’s my favorite シュモクザメ/Instagram influencer. He’s so cute 
Cutest thing of today goes to おるかちゃん in her tiny teaching hat
Second place for the cutest thing of today goes to these squishy-lookingトラフザメ
Look at them D: I wanna squoosh 'em 
Good words
- 統計 (とうけい) - statistics
- 満たない (みたない) - less than; fraction of; below
- それどころか - on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
- 圧倒的 (あっとうてき) - overwhelming
- 駆除 (くじょ) - extermination (esp. pests); expulsion; destruction
- 凶暴 (きょうぼう) - ferocious; brutal; atrocious; savage; barbarous
- マイナスイメージ - negative image (of something or someone); bad image
- 滅ぶ (ほろぶ) - to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
- 伴い (ともない) - companion; accompaniment
- 出現 (しゅつげん) - appearance; arrival; make one’s appearance
- 捕食 (ほしょく) - predation; eating prey; preying upon
- 軟骨 (なんこつ) - cartilage
- 復元 (ふくげん) - restoration (to original state or location); reconstruction; reversion
- 死角 (しかく) - blind spot (e.g. of a driver)
- ゆるゆる - very loose; slowly; leisurely
- 平べったい (ひらべったい) - flat; even; level
- ゆるふわ - soft and fluffy
- 幼体 (ようたい) - immature form (of an organism); young animal