英語・英会話の情報ランド

★日本的事物の英訳例(3)《編集A.Y.》

書き初め

a traditional ceremony of doing calligraphy with a bush for the first time in the New Year (usually held on January 2)

掛け軸

a hanging scroll with a picture or a work of calligraphy pasted on the center

カタカナ

one of two phonetic characters used to represent the sounds of the Japanese language, usually used to write onomatopoeia and loanwords

かっぱ

a Japanese water imp

an imaginary animal that is a cross between a child and a frog, believed to live in a river or a pound

門松

a New Year decorations made of pine branches, bamboo stems and Japanese apricot twigs, placed at the front door in pairs.)

神棚

a household Shinto altar, usually placed above the lintel

漢字

the Chinese ideographs or characters

下駄

Japanese wooden clogs, consisting of two wooden supports and inverted-V shaped thong

剣道

a Japanese martial art, somewhat similar to fencing

碁（囲碁）

a board game played between two people, in which they alternately place rounded black and white stones to secure their position