Illustration: At a kitchen table, a parent opens a homemade lunchbox containing an astonishingly detailed miniature garden made entirely from food. Thin vegetable slices form layered flowers, rice forms a tiny curved bridge, and carefully cut seaweed makes its delicate railings.

JLPT N1pre-noun adjectivalLevel estimated by Bebop

凝こった

kotta

elaborate, intricate

Example sentences

  1. 加賀かがの大乗寺だいじょうじでは、「安芸あきの物外ものがい」といわれ、寺てらの柱はしらを持もち上あげて下したに藁草履わらぞうりを履はかせるなど、凝こったいたずらをした。

    At Daijo-ji Temple in Kaga, he was said to be 'Aki no Motsugai,' and he made elaborate mischief, for example, he lifted up a pillar of the temple and made it wear a straw sandal.

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

  2. 風景ふうけいを美うつくしくとらえながらも凝こった映像表現えいぞうひょうげんは控ひかえ、一般人いっぱんじんや社会しゃかいの逸それ者しゃのささやかな日常生活にちじょうせいかつに潜ひそむ喜よろこびと哀かなしみを丹念たんねんに描えがく。

    They carefully depict the joy and sorrow hidden in the everyday life of ordinary people and outcasts, with beautiful scenery and simple visual imagery.

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

  3. 逆ぎゃくに鉄簪てつかんざしは、一流いちりゅうの職人しょくにんの手てになる細工さいくの凝こった物ものであれば、かえって銀ぎんよりも落おち着ついた輝かがやきが粋いきとされて粋好いきこのみの芸者げいしゃに持もて囃はやされた。

    By contrast, iron kanzashi, especially refined products of top craftsmen, were appreciated by geisha because of their mild gloss compared with silver products.

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

Kanji in 凝

  • 凝congeal; freezeOnギョウKunこる・こらす・こごらす

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