Illustration: Inside a small café converted from a neighbourhood bathhouse, the owner holds an old photograph at the spot where it was taken. The photograph shows tiled bathing pools and rows of taps; behind it, the same distinctive tile pattern and rounded pool edge survive beneath café tables.

JLPT N2adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

元がん来らい

ganrai

originally, by nature

Example sentences

  1. 元来がんらいフットボールとは、ポロのように馬うまに乗のって行おこなわれる競技きょうぎとは違ちがって、足あしで、ボールを使つかって行おこなわれる競技きょうぎのことでした。

    Football originally meant "a game played with a ball on foot" - unlike a game played on horseback, such as polo.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 裏千家うらせんけでも元来がんらい同様どうようである。

    The procedures were originally the same for the Urasenke style.

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

  3. 元来がんらいは汗取あせとりとして着用ちゃくようされたものであった。

    Originally, it was worn as a garment for absorbing sweat.

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

Kanji in 元来

  • 元beginning; former timeOnゲン・ガンKunもと
  • 来come; dueOnライ・タイKunくる・きたる・きたす

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