April 2022 Japanese Reading Group

The USJETAA Japanese Reading Group helps advanced beginner and intermediate level students improve their reading skills. Each month we will look at a short reading from Aozora Bunko, a repository of public domain literature. Participants should attempt to do the reading on their own and come to the meeting with any questions. We will spend the meeting each month reading the assignment sentence by sentence to understand how the Japanese is working.

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For the next three months, we'll be reading マスク (Masks) by Kikuchi Kan, who was a famous playwright and novelist. He created the Bungeishunju literary magazine and started the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes. Let's read this story from 1920 about - masks! 

This month we'll read up to the paragraph that ends 脂肪心になると、ころりと衝心してしまいますよ。The link to the reading is here: https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000083/files/60714_74627.html

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