Illustration: At a sculptor's retrospective in a small Japanese gallery, visitors gather around a distinctive ceramic rabbit whose impossibly long ears curl into a complete ring. Other pieces share the artist's rounded forms, but this rabbit commands immediate recognition.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

代だい表ひょう作さく

daihyousaku

representative work

Example sentences

  1. 本作ほんさくは今井いまいの代表作だいひょうさくとなった。

    The film became his best-known work.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 当時とうじの政治小説せいじしょうせつの代表作だいひょうさくといわれる。

    It is said to be a representative political fiction of the time.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 俵屋宗達たわらやそうたつの代表作だいひょうさくとして名高なだかい。

    The piece is extremely well known as quintessential example of the work of Sotatsu TAWARAYA.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 代表作

  • 代substitute; changeOnダイ・タイKunかわる・かわる・かわり
  • 表surface; tableOnヒョウKunおもて・あらわす・あらわれる
  • 作make; productionOnサク・サKunつくる・つくり

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