Learning Log

Reviewing vocabulary today, I wondered about the difference between

yuugata
ban
yoru

As usual, I found some helpful info online:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/2c9nwk/%E5%A4%9C%E5%A4%…

yuu, yuugata 夕 - 5pm to 7pm
ban 晩 - 7pm to 10pm
yoru 夜 - 10pm onwards

Also, ban is usually used in combination (konban), not by itself.

Also yuube specifically means yesterday's evening. (Ah, or apparently as an evening event, like soiree.)

(I also came across a reference to "ushimitsu-doki", which is 2-3 am. Interesting!)

This week I discovered Gabriele Münter; I was looking up famous German women, and her name appeared on one of the lists I found.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts has her Breakfast of the Birds, which is a lovely work that I think I'm going to copy or at least follow for Draw a Bird Day.

I'm having trouble remembering kagu, so I'd like to create a sentence or short story using lots of kag- words:

kagu - furniture
kagi - key
kage - shadow
kago - basket, cage
kagami - mirror
kagaku - chemistry, science
kagu - smell, sniff (in Library Lion)

I have a really hard time remembering which of the tsuk- verbs is which:

tsukau - to use
tsukuru - to make
tsukeru - to turn on, attach
tsuku - to arrive

I'm going to try to peg tsuku to tsugu: If I follow, I will arrive.

https://easyjapanese.jp/2018/03/15/the-difference-between-kirei-and-uts…

Working on a translation, I wondered about the difference between kirei and utsukushii.

The Easy Japanese page on kirei and utsukushi notes that:

• kirei has a connotation of clean or neat
• utsukushii has a connotation of artistic beauty

And now I'm wondering if there's an aspect of intention?

I was checking Joshua Kosman's blog to see if he'd posted anything lately (alas, he has not), and I was stumped by the phrase "the tentative Alphonse-and-Gaston footwork between Nelsons and the string players " in his entry about hearing the BSO perform Mahler's Ninth.