Japanese listening diary · Day 262

Six Letters From My Mother Who Died 22 Years Ago

22年前に亡くなった母からの6通の手紙
September 25, 2026
About a minuteSlow, natural Japanese
Real JapaneseN5–N3 friendly
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Yesterday, I was organizing my closet. With the mindset of getting rid of everything I'm not using now, I was carefully sorting things out one by one. Among them, my treasure turned up. Letters from my mother, who passed away 22 years ago. I only have six of them left, but I reread, one by one, the letters my mother used to casually send me in everyday life. I looked back on my younger self, wondering whether I had ever written a reply to those letters, but I don't remember. Now that I'm at this age, I realized once again how much my mother cared about me, and how much she worried about me. Feeling lonely and grateful, I can't stop my tears just remembering my mother's letters that I reread yesterday.

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No. 262Tokyo · morning
日本語 — Japanese
ひらがな — Hiragana
きのう、くろーぜっとのせいりをしていました。いまつかっていないものはすべてしょぶんしようというこころもちで、ひとつひとつていねいにしわけしていました。そのなかからわたしのたからものがでてきました。にじゅうにねんまえになくなったははからのてがみです。てもとにのこっているのはたったのろくつうですが、ふだんなにげなくわたしにおくってきてくれていたははからのてがみをひとつひとつよみかえしました。
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Vocabulary ことば

昨日きのうyesterday
丁寧ていねいcareful; with care
宝物たからものtreasure
読み返すよみかえすto reread
返事へんじreply

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