Illustration: On New Year's morning, a Japanese family opens stacked jubako boxes at a low dining table. Their compartments contain rolled datemaki omelet, glossy black soybeans, curved prawns, sliced kamaboko and chestnut-filled sweet potato mash. A small kagami mochi stands on a nearby shelf.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

おせち

osechi

Japanese New Year food

Example sentences

  1. したがって近年きんねんではデパートや料亭りょうていなどのおせち料理りょうりが購入こうにゅうされることがある。

    Accordingly, osechi dishes are now sometimes purchased at department stores or restaurants.

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

  2. また、お節せち料理りょうりを自宅じたくで作つくらずに既成きせいの詰つめ合あわせのお節料理せちりょうりを、食料品店しょくりょうひんてん、百貨店ひゃっかてん、インターネット上じょうの店舗てんぽその他たで買かい求もとめる人々ひとびとも増ふえている。

    Furthermore, people increasingly purchase ready-made packed osechi dishes at grocery stores and department stores, or from Internet sites, instead of preparing them at home.

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

  3. おばあちゃんのおせち料理りょうりはとても美味おいしいです。

    My grandmother’s New Year’s dishes are delicious.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

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