Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese apartment, a grandmother demonstrates how to fold a cloth around a lunch box, holding two diagonal corners together before tying them. Beside her, a child copies the same hand position with a second cloth and lunch box.

JLPT N3conjunctionLevel estimated by Bebop

そうして

soushite

and, and then

Example sentences

  1. そうして、この子この父ちちが神かみであることがわかったという。

    And so it was understood that the boy’s father was a god.

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

  2. そうして、1955年頃ねんごろに現在げんざいの広島風ひろしまふうお好このみ焼やきになった。

    And it became the present Hiroshimafu-okonomiyaki around 1955.

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

  3. そうして「平仮名ひらがな」と「片仮名かたかな」が創造そうぞうされたのである。

    Both the 'hiragana' and 'katakana' syllabaries were created from these characters.

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

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