Illustration: In a small Japanese pottery studio, a potter tests the handle of a handmade mug with two fingers, then carefully adjusts its curve by a few millimeters. Several finished mugs nearby share precisely the same distinctive handle shape. A perfectly usable mug with a different handle has been set aside.

こだわり

kodawari

strong preference, attention to detail

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは服ふくにこだわりがない。
She doesn’t care how she dresses.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
こだわりはお客きゃくに伝つたわってこそ意味いみをなす。
Care over the particulars only has meaning once it gets across to customers.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
書物しょもつの貸かし借かりや読よみ方かたにこだわりがあった。
He was particular about the borrowing and lending of books as well as the manner of reading books.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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