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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

A hundred days

The hundred-day meal at the Yamamotos' table, the small lacquer bowls and a stone: Yui's mother gives the order of the ceremony, Aunt Fumiko claims the feeding as the oldest in Osaka speech and loses to Yui's father, the stone comes last so that the teeth grow strong, Ben asks whether it is only pretend, and Yui says why: so that she never wants for food.

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THE STORY

The Yamamotos' table in the north of Kyoto, the small lacquer bowls and a stone from the shrine. Yui and her parents are plain; Aunt Fumiko slips into Osaka speech; Ben is polite with the family.

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きょう で ひゃくにち。 おくいぞめ よ。kyō de hyakunichi. okuizome yoA hundred days today. The first-meal ceremony.
まず ごはん、 つぎ に しる、 さかな。mazu gohan, tsugi ni shiru, sakanaFirst rice, then soup, then fish.
いちばん としうえ が、 たべさせる ん や。ichiban toshiue ga, tabesaseru n yaThe oldest one feeds her, you see.
こっち の ほう が、 としうえ だ。kotchi no hō ga, toshiue daI'm the older one.
じゃ、 おにいさん、 どうぞ。ja, oniisan, dōzoThen you, brother. Please.
は が つよく なる よう に。ha ga tsuyoku naru yō niso that her teeth grow strong
さいご は、 いし。 は が つよく なる よう に。saigo wa, ishi. ha ga tsuyoku naru yō niLast, the stone. So that her teeth grow strong.
たべない ん です か？ まね だけ です か？tabenai n desu ka? mane dake desu kaShe doesn't eat? It's only pretend?
いっしょう、 たべもの に こまらない よう に。isshō, tabemono ni komaranai yō niSo that she never wants for food, her whole life.