🍜 Japanese Title:
忘れられたノート
Wasurerareta Nōto
The Forgotten Notebook
🎯 Theme:
Hana discovers an old notebook on a station bench. Inside are notes, doodles, and half-written poems. She realizes someone else once walked this same journey, leaving behind fragments of their story.
📍 Setting:
- Wooden bench at a rural train station
- Crickets chirping in the evening air
- Notebook worn with age, pages yellowing
📚 Vocabulary:
| Japanese | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 忘れる | わすれる | to forget |
| 詩 | し | poem |
| 落とす | おとす | to drop/lose |
| 思い出 | おもいで | memory |
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🔊 Useful Phrases:
- 誰の思い出なんだろう。
(I wonder whose memories these are.) - このページ、涙でにじんでる。
(This page is blurred by tears.) - 旅の途中で落としたのかな。
(Did they drop it during their journey?)
📉 Grammar Focus:
| Grammar | Example | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 〜だろう | 誰の思い出なんだろう。 | I wonder / probably |
| 〜かな | 落としたのかな。 | I wonder |
| 〜で | 涙でにじんでる。 | by/with (cause/means) |
🎥 Dialogue:
Hana (holding notebook): 「これ…忘れられた物語みたい。」
(This feels like a forgotten story.)
Hana (closing notebook gently): 「でも、きっとどこかで続いてる。」
(But surely… it’s continuing somewhere.)
🛏️ Final Note:
Even when stories are lost, their echoes remain for someone else to find.