Illustration: On a cold New Year morning, a family stands before a neighborhood shrine's offertory box, hands together after clapping. Fresh pine-and-bamboo arrangements flank the approach, and other visitors in winter coats wait quietly behind them.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

初詣はつもうで

hatsumoude

first shrine visit of the new year

The visit can also be to a temple. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 今年ことしの初詣はつもうでは出雲大社いずもたいしゃに行いって、縁結えんむすびの神様かみさまに素敵すてきな出会であいをお願ねがいしてきました。

    I went to Izumo-taisha for my New Year’s shrine visit and asked the god of marriage to arrange that I meet my special someone.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. なお、初詣はつもうでの対象たいしょうは神社じんじゃ・寺院じいんのいずれでもかまわないとされている。

    It is said that the target of hatsumode can be either a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple.

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

  3. 初詣はつもうでが習慣化しゅうかんかしたのはそれほど古ふるい時代じだいではなく、明治時代中期めいじじだいちゅうきのこととされている。

    Hatsumode is considered to have become a common practice not so long ago but during the middle of the Meiji period.

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

Kanji in 初詣

  • 初first time; beginningOnショKunはじめ・はじめて・はつ
  • 詣visit a temple; arriveOnケイ・ゲイKunけいする・まいる・いたる

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