Illustration: On a contemporary Japanese residential street, an older woman holds a small photograph of the wooden house where she grew up. Beyond the photograph stands the same property, now extensively renovated, but its distinctive rounded doorway and worn stone step remain.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

面おも影かげ

omokage

trace, reminder of the past

Example sentences

  1. その村むらにはもう昔むかしの面影おもかげはない。

    The village is now different from what it used to be.

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  2. 外観がいかん・内装ないそうとも昭和しょうわモダニズムの面影おもかげを残のこす貴重きちょうな建物たてものである。

    It’s a valuable building whose appearance and interior show signs of Showa modernism.

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

  3. そのため、現在げんざいでも城下町じょうかまちには当時とうじの面影おもかげや名残なごりがある。

    That is why even to this day the castle town retains the atmosphere and the buildings of those years.

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

Kanji in 面影

  • 面mask; faceOnメン・ベンKunおも・おもて・つら
  • 影shadow; silhouetteOnエイKunかげ

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