Illustration: At an outdoor neighborhood pool on its first summer morning, an attendant has just swung the entrance gate open. Beyond it, the water remains perfectly undisturbed except where the first child is stepping down the pool ladder and making a small splash.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

幕まく開あけ

makuake

beginning, opening

Example sentences

  1. これは新時代しんじだいの幕開まくあけです。

    This is the beginning of a new era.

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  2. 近代きんだいの幕開まくあけと共ともに、人生じんせいの幕まくを下おろす。

    His life ended when the modern days started.

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

  3. 貴族政権きぞくせいけんから武家政権ぶけせいけんへと移うつり変かわる新あたらしい時代じだいの幕開まくあけで、日本史上にっぽんしじょう、最もっとも仏教ぶっきょうが繁栄はんえいした時代じだいの到来とうらいである。

    This was the beginning of the age when the government changed from the aristocrats to the warrior class and was the time when Buddhism was at its height in Japanese history.

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

Kanji in 幕開

  • 幕curtain; buntingOnマク・バクKunとばり
  • 開open; unfoldOnカイKunひらく・ひらき・あく

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