Illustration: Inside a neighborhood community hall, an elderly festival performer guides a child’s hands on the grips inside a shishi lion head. The child’s ordinary sneakers protrude beneath the trailing performance cloth, while the elder demonstrates the familiar bent-knee stance.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

伝でん統とう文ぶん化か

dentoubunka

traditional culture

Example sentences

  1. 今日きょう、日本にっぽんの若者達わかものたちが自国じこくの伝統文化でんとうぶんかにほとんど興味きょうみを示しめさない事ことは残念ざんねんである。

    It is regrettable that young Japanese today should show little interest in the traditional culture of their country.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 戦争遂行せんそうすいこうのため大衆文化たいしゅうぶんかや伝統文化でんとうぶんかも政府せいふに統制とうせいされた。

    In order to carry out the war, the government also controlled the common and traditional cultures.

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

  3. また、欧化主義おうかしゅぎによって日本にっぽんの文化ぶんかを旧態依然きゅうたいいぜんの古ふるい物ものとする考かんがえ方かたも登場とうじょうし、伝統文化でんとうぶんかが危機ききに陥おちいった事こともあった。

    The idea of Japanese culture being old-fashioned was born due to the theory of Europeanization, jeopardizing Japanese traditional culture.

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

Kanji in 伝統文化

  • 伝transmit; go alongOnデン・テンKunつたわる・つたえる・つたう
  • 統overall; relationshipOnトウKunすべる
  • 文sentence; literatureOnブン・モンKunふみ・あや
  • 化change; take the form ofOnカ・ケKunばける・ばかす・ふける

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