🗺️ 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
797 entries (page 6 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 EventsStandard Showa no hi to midori no hi昭和の日とみどりの日the two late-April holidays that swapped names and dates
- Annual EventsStandard matsu no uchi松の内the period New Year decorations stay up
- Annual EventsStandard shogatsu no asobi正月の遊びthe traditional games played at New Year
- Annual EventsStandard shoryo uma精霊馬the cucumber horse and eggplant cow made for Obon
- Annual EventsStandard tenno tanjobi天皇誕生日the Emperor's Birthday, a holiday whose date changes with the reign
- Annual EventsStandard doyo no ushi土用の丑の日the day everyone eats eel
- Annual EventsStandard toji冬至the shortest day, with a yuzu bath and pumpkin
- Annual EventsStandard toji to yuzuyu冬至とゆず湯the winter solstice and citrus baths
- Annual EventsStandard toro nagashi灯籠流しfloating lanterns for the dead
- Annual EventsStandard tori no ichi酉の市the November rake market for good business
- Annual EventsStandard nijushi sekki二十四節気the twenty-four solar terms of the traditional calendar
- Annual EventsStandard kashiwamochi and chimaki柏餅とちまきthe two sweets eaten on Children's Day, east and west
- Annual EventsStandard higan彼岸the weeks around the equinoxes when families visit graves
- Annual EventsStandard bunka no hi文化の日Culture Day, November 3rd
- Annual EventsStandard kadomatsu門松the pine and bamboo arrangement placed at the door for the New Year
- Annual EventsStandard rokuyo六曜the six-day luck cycle on calendars
- FolkloreStandard Kaguya-himeかぐや姫the girl found in a bamboo stalk who returns to the moon
- FolkloreStandard darumaだるまthe round wish doll with no eyes
- FolkloreStandard kappa河童river spirits with a dish on the head
- FolkloreStandard kaidan怪談Japanese ghost stories
- FolkloreStandard kitsune to Inari狐と稲荷why shrines are guarded by foxes
- FolkloreStandard shijukunichi to rei四十九日と霊why the soul is thought to linger for forty-nine days before its fate is settled
- FolkloreStandard tsuru to kame鶴と亀symbols of long life
- FolkloreStandard tengu天狗long-nosed mountain spirits
- FolkloreStandard hamaya破魔矢the arrow you buy at New Year
- FolkloreStandard yokai妖怪Japanese supernatural creatures
- FolkloreStandard ryu龍the East Asian dragon
- Food & DrinkStandard anpanあんぱんthe sweet bean bun that made bread Japanese
- Food & DrinkStandard gotochi gurumeご当地グルメlocal specialty foods, and the towns that market them
- Food & DrinkStandard sashisusesoさしすせそthe order in which the five basic seasonings go into a Japanese dish
- Food & DrinkStandard champonちゃんぽんthe Nagasaki noodle dish invented for Chinese students
- Food & DrinkStandard monjayakiもんじゃ焼きthe runny Tokyo griddle dish you eat straight off the hotplate
- Food & DrinkStandard onsen tamago温泉卵the egg cooked the other way around
- Food & DrinkStandard kaiseki ryori懐石料理the formal multi-course meal, and the two different things called kaiseki
- Food & DrinkStandard amazake甘酒the sweet rice drink, with and without alcohol
- 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 sansai to kinoko山菜ときのこwild vegetables and mushrooms from the mountains
- Food & DrinkStandard dashi出汁the stock at the base of Japanese cooking
- Food & DrinkStandard shochu焼酎a distilled Japanese spirit
- Food & DrinkStandard shokuhin rosu食品ロスfood that could have been eaten but was thrown away
- Food & DrinkStandard ishiyakiimo石焼き芋sweet potatoes roasted in hot stones, sold from a truck
- Food & DrinkStandard sekihan赤飯red rice steamed with azuki beans
- Food & DrinkStandard tsukemono漬物Japanese pickles served alongside rice
- Food & DrinkStandard nanban-gashi南蛮菓子the sweets the Portuguese brought in the 1500s
- Food & DrinkStandard nihon no uisuki日本のウイスキーhow Japan started making whisky, and why the old bottles vanished
- Food & DrinkStandard umeshu梅酒plum liqueur, the drink many Japanese households make at home
- Food & DrinkStandard miso dengaku味噌田楽tofu or vegetables on skewers, grilled with sweet miso
- Food & DrinkStandard yoshoku洋食Western-style dishes invented in Japan
- Food & DrinkStandard hiyashi chuka冷やし中華the cold noodle dish that appears for one season only
- 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