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Jūbako no Sumi wo Tsutsuku (重箱の隅をつつく – Quibbling on Insignificant Detail)

Mar 05, 2021Jun 01, 2021 Toru 0 Comments box, corner, eat, food, insignificant, poke, quibble, store

Jūbako no Sumi wo Tsutsuku 重箱の隅をつつく In my post the day before yesterday, I introduced the word jūbako (重箱), which

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Jūbako Yomi (重箱読み – Mixed Reading of Chinese and Japanese)

Mar 03, 2021Jun 01, 2021 Toru 0 Comments box, Chinese, food, Japanese, mixture, overlap, reading, store

Jūbako Yomi 重箱読み In my post yesterday, I explained that it is not standard to read 代替 as daigae (だいがえ).

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Five-yen Coin

Oct 10, 2019Oct 09, 2019 Toru 0 Comments box, Buddha, coin, dedicate, five-yen, gods, good encounter, hope, money, offertory box, pray, prayer, relationship, shrine, temple

Five-yen Coin 五円玉 Usually, there is saisenbako (賽銭箱) in Japanese shrines and temples. 日本の神社や寺院などには「賽銭箱」が置かれていることがあります。 Saisen (賽銭) means money that is

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Nizukuri(荷造り – Packing)

Mar 24, 2019Mar 24, 2019 Toru 0 Comments apartment, bag, box, make, move, moving, package, packing, put together, string, tie

Nizukuri 荷造り Now I am doing ‘nizukuri‘ (荷造り) for moving out of my apartment. 私は今、「荷造り」をしています。 Since ‘ni‘ (荷) means “package”

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