🎓 Entrance Exams
大学入試の自由英作文・長文で出る日本文化のテーマ
365 entries (page 3 of 7)Tap a title to open the full entry: three lengths of English explanation, the questions people actually ask, ready-made phrases and audio.
- ConceptsStandard seken世間the watching public around you
- ConceptsStandard sekentei世間体how you look to the people around you
- ConceptsStandard ikigai生きがいwhat makes life worth living
- ConceptsStandard haji恥shame as a social brake
- ConceptsStandard bun o wakimaeru分をわきまえるknowing and staying within your place
- ConceptsStandard honne and tatemae本音と建前true feelings and public face
- ConceptsStandard mujo無常the impermanence of everything
- ConceptsStandard myoji名字Japanese family names and where they came from
- ConceptsStandard wa和harmony as the thing a group protects
- ConceptsStandard wabi-sabi侘び寂びbeauty in imperfection and age
- ConceptsStandard kizuna絆the bond between people who will not let go of each other
- CraftsStandard shikki漆器lacquerware
- CraftsStandard shokunin職人the craftsman, as an identity
- CraftsStandard ningen kokuho人間国宝a Living National Treasure, a state-certified master of a traditional art or craft
- CraftsStandard tojiki陶磁器Japanese pottery and porcelain
- CraftsStandard washi和紙traditional Japanese paper
- Annual EventsStandard kanto matsuri竿燈まつりthe Akita festival of lantern poles balanced on one hand
- Annual EventsStandard keiro no hi敬老の日the September holiday honoring older people
- Annual EventsStandard shochu mimai暑中見舞いthe midsummer greeting card
- Annual EventsStandard kakizome書き初めthe first calligraphy of the year
- Annual EventsStandard shogatsu no asobi正月の遊びthe traditional games played at New Year
- Annual EventsStandard nijushi sekki二十四節気the twenty-four solar terms of the traditional calendar
- Annual EventsStandard higan彼岸the weeks around the equinoxes when families visit graves
- Annual EventsStandard kadomatsu門松the pine and bamboo arrangement placed at the door for the New Year
- FolkloreStandard Kaguya-himeかぐや姫the girl found in a bamboo stalk who returns to the moon
- FolkloreStandard oni鬼the horned ogre of Japanese folklore
- Food & DrinkStandard kaiseki ryori懐石料理the formal multi-course meal, and the two different things called kaiseki
- Food & DrinkStandard sakana o taberu bunka魚を食べる文化how much fish Japan eats, and how that is changing
- Food & DrinkStandard dashi出汁the stock at the base of Japanese cooking
- Food & DrinkStandard nanban-gashi南蛮菓子the sweets the Portuguese brought in the 1500s
- Food & DrinkStandard yoshoku洋食Western-style dishes invented in Japan
- Food & DrinkStandard wagashi和菓子traditional Japanese sweets
- HistoryStandard senkyuhyaku rokujuyo nen no Tokyo Orinpikku1964年の東京オリンピックthe games that announced Japan's recovery
- HistoryStandard sorobanそろばんthe Japanese abacus
- HistoryStandard baburu keizaiバブル経済the asset price bubble of the late 1980s
- HistoryStandard Onin no ran応仁の乱the eleven-year conflict that opened Japan's age of civil war
- HistoryStandard kaido and shukuba街道と宿場the Edo highways and their post towns
- HistoryStandard Sekigahara no tatakai関ヶ原の戦いthe 1600 battle that decided who would rule Japan for 265 years
- HistoryStandard Kanto daishinsai関東大震災the 1923 earthquake and fires that destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama
- HistoryStandard kentoshi遣唐使the missions Japan sent to Tang dynasty China
- HistoryStandard Edo jidai江戸時代Japan's 260 years of self-imposed peace and isolation
- HistoryStandard kodo keizai seicho高度経済成長Japan's postwar economic boom
- HistoryStandard kokuho to juyo bunkazai国宝と重要文化財how Japan designates what it protects
- HistoryStandard kurofune黒船the American warships that forced Japan to open its ports in 1853
- HistoryStandard terakoya寺子屋the neighborhood schools of the Edo period
- HistoryStandard ushinawareta sanjunen失われた30年the long stagnation after the bubble
- HistoryStandard shudan shushoku集団就職the mass migration of young workers to the cities after the war
- HistoryStandard jokamachi城下町a town laid out around a castle
- HistoryStandard Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu信長・秀吉・家康the three who unified Japan
- HistoryStandard Sengoku jidai戦国時代Japan's age of civil war
- HistoryStandard tenno天皇the Emperor of Japan
- HistoryStandard Nihonkoku kenpo日本国憲法the postwar constitution
- HistoryStandard haihan-chiken廃藩置県the abolition of the feudal domains
- HistoryStandard fukoku kyohei富国強兵the Meiji-era slogan "rich country, strong army"
- HistoryStandard Heike monogatari平家物語the war tale about the fall of a clan, recited to the lute
- HistoryStandard manyoshu万葉集Japan's oldest surviving poetry collection
- Home & LivingStandard irori囲炉裏the open hearth sunk into the floor
- Home & LivingStandard fusuma and shoji襖と障子the sliding paper doors of a Japanese house
- Home & LivingStandard gasshozukuri to kayabuki合掌造りと茅葺きthe steep thatched farmhouses of the snow country
- Home & LivingStandard uchimizu打ち水sprinkling water on the ground to cool the air