Today over 1100 cases of the coronavirus infections were confirmed in Japan. Not sure what the government comments about it, but it seems to me that they have been taking the situation too casually and bragging about their approach to the …

禅智内供(ぜんちないぐ)の鼻と云えば、池(いけ)の尾(お)で知らない者はない。 Everyone knows about Zenchi Naigu’s nose in Ikenoo. 長さは五六寸あって上唇(うわくちびる)の上から顋(あご)の下まで下っている。It is about five or six “sun” long(1 sun =…

The following is the complete version of my translation of the novel Daydream, edited for including the corrections from some English speakers. I am really grateful to my fellow language learners on Hellotalk for kindly correcting my convo…

「ね、いるでしょう。もっとよく私の可愛い女を見てやって下さい」 何がそうさせたのか。私はいつの間にか日覆の中へ這入(はい)っていた。“There she is. Please take a closer look at my babe”I wonder what made me do it, but I went inside the sunshad…

Now I’ve finished prepping something called peri peri chicken. It’d probably not exactly it, but something alike or semi-peri peri fashioned chicken. I referred to a recipe that I found on the internet. In the list of ingredients, I saw se…

Starting today, there are two national holidays in a row, and combining them with a weekend, many people have a four-day weekend this week. So, I have four holidays now. On top of that, for better or worse, my family went to a friend’s hou…

It seems that my throat is getting better gradually. On top of the clogging feeling in my throat that I had had since March, I suppose that the new English pronunciation practice that I started several weeks ago and put on hold last week a…

男は又囁き声で始めた。The man began telling groaningly. 「それでもう、女はほんとうに私のものになり切って了ったのです。ちっとも心配はいらないのです。キッスのしたい時にキッスが出来ます。抱き締めたい時には抱きしめることも出来ます。私はもう、…

Today, I took a day off. I woke up late. I was thinking of going out to a clinic and a pool in the afternoon, but I changed my mind and went to a pool after late breakfast. Now I’m already back home from there. As for my strange throat con…

I feel like I have something around my throat. This feeling maybe started around March. At first, I secretly suspected that I might have contracted the coronavirus, but since any other symptoms didn’t happen to me, I decided I didn’t. Howe…

Yesterday, my family and I went to a yakiniku restaurant. The last time we went out to eat was at the beginning of March, so it had been about four months since then. While refraining from going out to eat, I tried making yakiniku at home,…

「秘訣(ひけつ)なんだよ。秘訣なんだよ。死骸を腐らせない。……屍蝋というものになるんだ」「屍蝋」……ある医書の「屍蝋」の項が、私の目の前に、その著者の黴(かび)くさい絵姿と共に浮んで来た。“That is a secret method, a secret method, to prevent a cad…

After stopping smoking, I started having a lot of candies, basically to fill the void that I can’t help but feel inside. I felt like I could get by without smoking if I kept sucking candies all day long. I continued so and it seemed succes…

「諸君、あれは俺のことを触廻(ふれまわ)っているのだ。真柄太郎(まがらたろう)は人殺しだ、人殺しだ、そういって触廻(ふれまわ)っているのだ」 又笑い声が起った。“Everyone, that band is spreading around the news about me, saying that I, Taro Magara…

I’ve come to a bike repair shop to change a front tire and oil of my scooter. Come to think of it, it’s quite rare for me to write about this kind of thing, so this might not make sense. Anyway, this shop was transferred here from my neigh…