🗺️ Tour Guide
全国通訳案内士の二次口述の対策に。日本文化を外国語で説明させられる唯一の国家試験
794 entries (page 12 of 14)Tap a title to open the full entry: three lengths of English explanation, the questions people actually ask, ready-made phrases and audio.
- Annual EventsAdvanced nagoshi no harae夏越の祓the midsummer purification
- Annual EventsAdvanced hanamatsuri花祭りthe Buddha's birthday
- Annual EventsAdvanced go-sekku五節句the five seasonal festivals of the old calendar
- Annual EventsAdvanced zassetsu雑節Japan's own seasonal markers, added to the imported calendar
- Annual EventsAdvanced jusan mairi十三参りthe shrine visit at thirteen
- Annual EventsAdvanced jusanya十三夜the second moon-viewing night, about a month after the harvest moon
- Annual EventsAdvanced choyo重陽の節句the chrysanthemum festival of the ninth month
- Annual EventsAdvanced hatsuuma初午the February day for the fox shrines
- Annual EventsAdvanced hatsuyume初夢the first dream of the year, and what it is said to foretell
- Annual EventsAdvanced niinamesai新嘗祭と勤労感謝の日the harvest rite behind a public holiday
- Annual EventsAdvanced hari kuyo針供養a memorial service for broken needles
- FolkloreAdvanced onmyodo陰陽道the court's system of divination and calendar making
- FolkloreAdvanced ushimitsu doki丑三つ時the dead of night, around two in the morning, when spirits were said to appear
- FolkloreAdvanced bakedanuki化け狸the shape-shifting raccoon dog
- FolkloreAdvanced kimon鬼門the unlucky northeast direction
- FolkloreAdvanced kumade熊手the lucky rake for raking in business
- FolkloreAdvanced zashiki warashi座敷童子the child spirit of the house
- FolkloreAdvanced shichifukujin七福神the seven lucky gods
- FolkloreAdvanced yuki-onna雪女the snow woman
- FolkloreAdvanced tsukumogami付喪神objects that come alive with age
- FolkloreAdvanced kaso方位と家相lucky and unlucky directions in a house
- FolkloreAdvanced yakudoshi厄年the unlucky years of your life
- Food & DrinkAdvanced tokorotenところてんseaweed jelly pushed into noodles, sweet in Kansai and tangy in the east
- Food & DrinkAdvanced yakatabune屋形船the roofed boat you eat and drink on
- Food & DrinkAdvanced kuri kinton栗きんとんtwo different sweets with the same name
- HistoryAdvanced kimigayo君が代the national anthem, and why it is argued about
- HistoryAdvanced kenpo kyujo憲法9条the war-renouncing article of the constitution
- HistoryAdvanced Genji monogatari源氏物語an eleventh-century court novel
- HistoryAdvanced kofun古墳ancient burial mounds
- HistoryAdvanced Hiroshima and Nagasaki広島と長崎the atomic bombings and how they are remembered
- HistoryAdvanced kokugaku国学the Edo-period study of Japan's own classics
- HistoryAdvanced sakoku鎖国the closed country policy
- HistoryAdvanced sankin kotai参勤交代the alternate attendance system
- HistoryAdvanced jinrikisha人力車the two-wheeled passenger cart Japan invented and exported
- HistoryAdvanced sengo no josei no chii no henka戦後の女性の地位の変化what changed and what did not
- HistoryAdvanced sengo no senryo戦後の占領Japan under Allied administration
- HistoryAdvanced senpuku kirishitan潜伏キリシタンthe Christians who kept the faith through 250 years of prohibition
- HistoryAdvanced Taiheiyo senso太平洋戦争Japan in the Second World War
- HistoryAdvanced Taisho demokurashi大正デモクラシーthe liberal current of the 1910s and 1920s
- HistoryAdvanced teppo denrai鉄砲伝来the arrival of the matchlock gun in 1543 and how fast Japan copied it
- HistoryAdvanced Jomon and Yayoi縄文と弥生Japan's two prehistoric periods
- HistoryAdvanced hanko藩校the schools each domain ran for its samurai
- HistoryAdvanced bushi no tojo武士の登場how warriors took over government
- HistoryAdvanced bushido武士道the way of the warrior
- HistoryAdvanced bunkazai no seido文化財の制度how Japan designates national treasures and protects its heritage
- HistoryAdvanced bunmei kaika文明開化the rush to westernize
- HistoryAdvanced Heian jidai平安時代the age of the court aristocracy
- HistoryAdvanced Meiji ishin明治維新the transformation that rebuilt Japan in decades
- HistoryAdvanced rangaku蘭学Dutch learning during the closed country period
- HistoryAdvanced wasan和算the mathematics developed in Edo-period Japan
- Home & LivingAdvanced engawa縁側the wooden veranda between inside and out
- Home & LivingAdvanced danchi団地postwar public housing estates
- Home & LivingAdvanced nisetai jutaku二世帯住宅a house built for two generations
- Home & LivingAdvanced ranma欄間the carved panel above the sliding doors
- Life EventsAdvanced ochugen and oseiboお中元・お歳暮the two seasonal gift-giving periods
- Life EventsAdvanced eitai kuyo永代供養the temple keeping your grave when nobody is left to
- Life EventsAdvanced yuino結納the formal engagement ceremony
- Life EventsAdvanced koseki戸籍the family register
- Life EventsAdvanced sankotsu散骨scattering ashes at sea, and the rules around it
- Life EventsAdvanced satogaeri shussan出産と里帰りgoing home to your mother to give birth