Illustration: A family's genkan is crowded with footwear after everyone arrives home at once: a parent loosens leather shoes, a teenager pulls off sneakers, and a small child struggles out of rain boots. Beside them sit neatly paired sandals and an elderly relative's wooden geta.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

履はき物もの

hakimono

footwear

Example sentences

  1. 着付きつけには履物はきものを履はくことも含ふくまれる。

    Dressing includes wearing footgear.

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

  2. 浴衣ゆかたに合あわせる履物はきものは、素足すあしに下駄げたが一般的いっぱんてきである。

    The most popular footwear for yukata is a pair of wooden clogs for bare feet.

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

  3. 部屋へやでは履物はきものを脱ぬぎ、畳たたみに座すわる日本人にっぽんじんの伝統的でんとうてきな生活文化せいかつぶんかの一形態いちけいたいである。

    It is one aspect of the traditional Japanese lifestyle that includes not wearing shoes in the house and sitting on tatami mats.

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

Kanji in 履物

  • 履perform; completeOnリKunはく
  • 物thing; objectOnブツ・モツKunもの・もの-

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