Illustration: At a village's old sacred spring, an elderly resident teaches a child to scoop water with both hands and pour it gently over a small stone basin. Beside the living participants stands a deeply weathered ancient stone relief showing figures making the same distinctive offering at the same spring.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

古こ来らい

korai

since ancient times

Example sentences

彼かれほどの偉人いじんは古来こらいいない。
He is as great a man as ever lived.
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彼かれは古来こらいまれな大科学者だいかがくしゃである。
He is as great a scientist as ever lived.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
古来こらい、酒蔵さかぐらは川かわの近ちかくに多おおい。
From olden times, a majority of the breweries existed in the vicinity of a river.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 古来

古oldOnコKunふるい・ふる-
来come; dueOnライ・タイKunくる・きたる・きたす

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