Illustration: On the wooden veranda of a modest Edo-period home, two friends quietly enjoy the autumn moon reflected in a shallow garden basin. One has placed a few stems of susuki grass in a simple ceramic vase beside a small offering of round dumplings; the other lowers a tea bowl to appreciate the view.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

風ふう流りゅう

fuuryuu

elegant, refined

Example sentences

  1. 風流ふうりゅう人じんで特とくに香こうに詳くわしい。

    He is a man of refined taste, and has an especially good knowledge of incense.

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

  2. また、この地ちは風流ふうりゅうな観月かんげつの名所めいしょとしても知しられていた。

    This place is also known a good spot to view the moon in an elegant way.

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

  3. 和歌わかや俳諧はいかいなどを嗜たしなむなど意外いがいと風流ふうりゅう人じんの面めんもあった。

    Surprisingly, he was a person of taste, and he enjoyed making tanka poems and haiku, etc.

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

Kanji in 風流

  • 風wind; airOnフウ・フKunかぜ・かざ-
  • 流current; a sinkOnリュウ・ルKunながれる・ながれ・ながす

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