Illustration: On the veranda of a modest Japanese house, a teenager sits with a sketchbook facing a potted hydrangea and a sleeping cat curled against its pot. The open page contains an unfinished pencil drawing matching the real pot, bent flower stem and curled tail.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

写しゃ生せい

shasei

to sketch from life

Example sentences

彼かれはりんごを写生しゃせいした。
He sketched an apple.
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彼かれは林檎りんごを写生しゃせいしています。
He’s drawing a sketch of an apple.
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写生しゃせいを重要視じゅうようししている。
He placed great importance on sketching.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 写生

写copy; be photographedOnシャ・ジャKunうつす・うつる・うつ-
生life; genuineOnセイ・ショウKunいきる・いかす・いける

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