🗺️ 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 3 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.
- PlacesEssential Todaiji東大寺と奈良の大仏the Nara temple housing a 15-meter bronze Buddha in a vast wooden hall
- PlacesEssential Dotonbori道頓堀the canal-side street in Osaka with the running-man sign
- PlacesEssential Nara Koen no shika奈良公園の鹿the wild deer that roam a city park in Nara
- PlacesEssential Shirakawago白川郷the mountain village of steep thatched farmhouses
- PlacesEssential Hakone箱根the hot spring area in the mountains west of Tokyo
- PlacesEssential Himejijo姫路城the white castle in Hyogo, the best-preserved original keep in Japan
- PlacesEssential Fujisan富士山Japan's highest mountain, an active volcano and a World Cultural Heritage site
- PlacesEssential Fushimi Inari Taisha伏見稲荷大社the Kyoto shrine with thousands of vermilion torii gates up a mountain
- PlacesEssential Meiji Jingu明治神宮the Tokyo shrine set in a forest that was planted from nothing
- PlacesEssential Arashiyama嵐山the district of western Kyoto with the bridge, the temple garden and the bamboo path
- School LifeEssential natsuyasumi no shukudai夏休みの宿題the summer holiday homework, including the free research project
- ShintoEssential omamoriお守りa protective charm from a shrine or temple
- ShintoEssential sando参道the approach to a shrine
- ShintoEssential sanpai no saho参拝の作法the two bows, two claps, one bow routine
- ShintoEssential chozuya手水舎the water pavilion where you rinse your hands before praying
- ShintoEssential jinja to tera no chigai神社と寺の違いhow to tell a Shinto shrine from a Buddhist temple
- ShintoEssential Shinto神道Japan's indigenous way of relating to spirits in nature and ancestors
- ShintoEssential mikoshi神輿the portable shrine carried through the streets at a festival
- ShintoEssential torii鳥居the gate at the entrance to a shrine
- ShintoEssential mushukyo無宗教saying you have no religion while keeping its customs
- Work CultureEssential yakushoku de yobu役職で呼ぶaddressing colleagues by their job title
- ArtsStandard igo囲碁the board game of go
- ArtsStandard Oku no Hosomichi奥の細道Basho's travel account of the deep north
- ArtsStandard kabuki歌舞伎classical Japanese theater
- ArtsStandard kumadori歌舞伎の隈取kabuki's bold, symbolic stage makeup
- ArtsStandard emaki絵巻the painted handscroll you unroll section by section
- ArtsStandard kakejiku掛け軸a hanging scroll displayed in an alcove
- ArtsStandard kyogen狂言the comic theater performed alongside noh
- ArtsStandard koto琴the thirteen-stringed Japanese zither
- ArtsStandard mie見得the frozen dramatic pose in kabuki
- ArtsStandard karesansui枯山水the dry landscape garden
- ArtsStandard shamisen三味線the three-stringed instrument played with a large plectrum
- ArtsStandard shishimai獅子舞the lion dance that bites your head for luck
- ArtsStandard shakuhachi尺八the bamboo flute once played by wandering monks
- ArtsStandard shodo書道Japanese calligraphy
- ArtsStandard shogi将棋Japanese chess
- ArtsStandard suibokuga水墨画ink painting in black and white, brought by Zen monks
- ArtsStandard ikebana生け花Japanese flower arrangement
- ArtsStandard ishidoro to tsukubai石灯籠と蹲踞the stone furniture of a Japanese garden
- ArtsStandard senryu川柳the comic cousin of haiku, about people rather than nature
- ArtsStandard tanka短歌the thirty-one-syllable poem
- ArtsStandard chashitsu茶室the room built for a tea gathering
- ArtsStandard sado茶道the way of tea
- ArtsStandard choju giga鳥獣戯画the twelfth-century animal scrolls often called Japan's first manga
- ArtsStandard nihon buyo日本舞踊classical Japanese dance, largely grown out of kabuki
- ArtsStandard nomen能面the masks worn in noh theater
- ArtsStandard Hyakunin Isshu百人一首a hundred poems and the card game
- ArtsStandard mokuhanga木版画the woodblock printing behind ukiyo-e
- ArtsStandard rakugo落語solo comic storytelling
- ArtsStandard byobu屏風a folding screen
- BuddhismStandard Ojizo-sanお地蔵さんthe roadside guardian of children
- BuddhismStandard ofuseお布施the money offered to a priest, with no stated price
- BuddhismStandard ihai位牌a Buddhist memorial tablet with the name of someone who has died
- BuddhismStandard inga oho因果応報what you do comes back
- BuddhismStandard Kannon観音the bodhisattva of compassion
- BuddhismStandard gokuraku and jigoku極楽と地獄the Pure Land and the hells in Japanese Buddhism
- BuddhismStandard kesa袈裟the rectangular robe a Buddhist monk wears over the shoulder
- BuddhismStandard zazen座禅seated Zen meditation
- BuddhismStandard shakyo写経copying a sutra by hand
- BuddhismStandard shukubo宿坊temple lodging where guests stay with the monks