絵日記(えにっき)

えにっき
noun
picture diary
educationculture
1. picture diary
A diary in which each day's page has a drawing above a few lines of writing; in Japan, the classic summer-vacation homework for young schoolchildren.
絵日記(えにっき)を書(か)く。
To keep a picture diary.
夏休(なつやす)みの宿題(しゅくだい)は絵日記(えにっき)だった。
My summer vacation homework was a picture diary.
子供(こども)の頃(ころ)の絵日記(えにっき)を読(よ)み返(かえ)すと、当時(とうじ)のことを思(おも)い出(だ)す。
Rereading my childhood picture diary brings back those days.

Cultural note

Elementary schools traditionally assign a 絵日記(えにっき) over the summer holidays: one page a day with a picture of something the child did and a few sentences about it. Writing a whole month of entries in the last days of August is a standing joke.

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