A Summer Festival in the Heart of Shinbashi
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Today’s story きょうの あらすじ
On my way home I went to Shimbashi Station to buy disinfectant solution for my contact lenses. Shimbashi is a town of drinking spots, a place for older men, but today a festival was on. Stalls of cotton candy, candied apples, grilled squid and beer lined the street, and it was wonderfully lively. Children in jinbei, the summer robes made for kids, sat at the roadside with sweets and toys from the stalls. I grew up in the countryside, not in a big city, so finding such a scene in the middle of one left me feeling warm.
From the diary にっきから
ひらがな — Hiragana
Vocabulary ことば
| 消毒液 | しょうどくえき | disinfectant solution |
| 飲み屋 | のみや | drinking spot; bar |
| 屋台 | やたい | festival food stall |
| 賑やか | にぎやか | lively; bustling |
| ほっこり | ほっこり | warm and fuzzy (feeling) |
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今日のことば、きいて、まねる。
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