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日本にっぽんには昔むかしから、「虫むし干ぼし」という習しゅう慣かんがあります。着き物ものの湿気しっけ（注1）を取とり、虫むしやカビ（注2）などを防ふせぐためのものです。梅雨つゆが終おわった7月つき下げ旬じゅんから8月つき上じょう旬じゅんに行おこなうことが多おおいです。梅雨つゆの間まに着き物ものが湿気しっけを含ふくんでしまうからです。

2、3日にち晴はれて乾かん燥そうした日ひが続つづいたあと、午ご前ぜん10時じから午ご後ご3時じごろまで、風かぜがよく通とおる部屋へやで、着き物ものが風かぜに当あたるようにします。また、その間かんに汚よごれたところはないか調しらべます。

最さい近きんあまり見みられなくなった習しゅう慣かんですが、日本にっぽんの気き候こうに合あった生せい活かつの工く夫ふうとして、現げん代だいの洋よう服ふくにも役やくに立たつのではないかと思おもいます。

（注ちゅう1）湿気しっけ：物ものや空くう気きの中なかにある水みず。目めには見みえない

（注ちゅう2）カビ：気き温おんが高たかく湿気しっけがあるところで、食たべ物ものや服ふくに生はえる非ひ常じょうに小ちいさな生せい物ぶつ

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  1. 1虫干しをする理由は何か。

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Vocabulary14 words
  • 防ぐふせぐ
    • ·to defend against; to protect against
    • ·to prevent; to avert; to avoid
    N3
  • 梅雨つゆ
    • ·(East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July)
    • ·rain during the rainy season
    N3
  • 月つき
    • ·Moon
    • ·month
    • ·moonlight
    • ·(a) moon; natural satellite
    N3
  • こと
    • ·thing; matter
    • ·incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
    • ·circumstances; situation; state of affairs
    • ·work; business; affair
    • ·after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
    • ·nominalizing suffix
    • ·pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...
    • ·alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or
    • ·necessity; need
    • ·you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...
    N3
  • 間ま
    • ·time; pause
    • ·space
    • ·room
    N3
  • 含むふくむAs it appears here: 含んで
    • ·to contain; to comprise; to have; to hold; to include; to embrace
    • ·to hold in the mouth
    • ·to bear in mind; to understand; to harbor (grudge, etc.); to harbour
    • ·to express (emotion, etc.); to imply
    N3
  • 日にち
    • ·Sunday
    • ·nth day (of the month)
    • ·counter for days
    • ·Japan
    N3
  • ごろ
    • ·(approximate) time; around; about; toward
    • ·suitable time (or condition)
    • ·time of year; season
    N3
  • よう
    • ·appearing ...; looking ...
    • ·way to ...; method of ...ing
    • ·form; style; design
    • ·like; similar to
    • ·thing (thought or spoken)
    N3
  • 気候きこう
    • ·climate
    N3
  • 現代げんだい
    • ·present age; present day; today
    • ·modern era; modern times
    N3
  • 注ちゅう
    • ·annotation; explanatory note; comment
    N3
  • 気温きおん
    • ·(air) temperature
    N3
  • 生物せいぶつ
    • ·living thing; organism; creature; life
    • ·biology
    N3
Other levels53 words
  • あるAs it appears here: あります
    • ·to be; to exist; to live
    • ·to have
    • ·to be located
    • ·to be equipped with
    • ·to happen; to come about
    • ·to exist (in a completed state); to be (something unchanged in its current state)
    N5
  • 取るとるAs it appears here: 取り
    • ·to take; to pick up; to grab; to catch; to hold
    • ·to pass; to hand; to give
    • ·to get; to obtain; to acquire; to win; to receive; to earn; to take (e.g. a vacation)
    • ·to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.); to take (a measure, attitude, etc.); to choose
    • ·to remove; to get rid of; to take off
    • ·to take away; to steal; to rob
    • ·to eat; to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)
    • ·to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather; to extract (e.g. juice); to catch (e.g. fish); to harvest (a crop)
    • ·to take up (time, space); to occupy; to spare; to set aside
    • ·to secure; to reserve; to save; to put aside; to keep
    • ·to take (e.g. a joke); to interpret; to understand; to make out; to grasp
    • ·to record; to take down
    • ·to subscribe to (e.g. a newspaper); to take; to buy; to get
    • ·to order; to have delivered
    • ·to charge; to fine; to take (tax)
    • ·to take (e.g. a wife); to take on (e.g. an apprentice); to adopt; to accept
    • ·to take control of; to take (the rudder)
    • ·to compete (in sumo, cards, etc.); to play
    N5
  • もの
    • ·thing; object; article; stuff; substance
    • ·one's things; possessions; property; belongings
    • ·things; something; anything; everything; nothing
    • ·quality
    • ·reason; the way of things
    • ·used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen
    • ·item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...
    • ·cause of ...; cause for ...
    • ·somehow; somewhat; for some reason
    • ·really; truly
    N5
  • 多いおおい
    • ·many; numerous; a lot
    • ·large amount of; large quantity of; a lot; much
    • ·frequent; common
    N5
  • 晴れるはれるAs it appears here: 晴れて
    • ·to clear up; to clear away; to be sunny; to stop raining
    • ·to refresh (e.g. spirits)
    • ·to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion)
    • ·to be dispelled; to be banished
    N5
  • するAs it appears here: した
    • ·to do; to carry out; to perform
    • ·to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
    • ·to serve as; to act as; to work as
    • ·to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
    • ·to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as
    • ·to decide on; to choose
    • ·to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
    • ·to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
    • ·to be worth; to cost
    • ·to pass (of time); to elapse
    • ·to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
    • ·to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B
    • ·to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B
    • ·to feel A about B
    • ·verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
    • ·creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
    • ·to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to
    N5
  • あと
    • ·behind; rear
    • ·after; later
    • ·remainder; the rest
    • ·more (e.g. five more minutes); left
    • ·also; in addition
    • ·descendant; successor; heir
    • ·after one's death
    • ·past; previous
    N5
  • 午前ごぜん
    • ·morning; a.m.
    N5
  • 午後ごご
    • ·afternoon; p.m.
    N5
  • 風かぜ
    • ·wind; breeze; draught; draft
    • ·manner; behaviour; behavior
    • ·cold; influenza
    N5
  • よく
    • ·nicely; properly; well; skillfully; skilfully
    • ·frequently; often
    • ·I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
    • ·(you have) quite the nerve to; I don't know how you can ...
    N5
  • 部屋へや
    • ·room; chamber
    • ·apartment; flat; pad
    • ·stable
    N5
  • するAs it appears here: します
    • ·to do; to carry out; to perform
    • ·to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
    • ·to serve as; to act as; to work as
    • ·to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
    • ·to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as
    • ·to decide on; to choose
    • ·to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
    • ·to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
    • ·to be worth; to cost
    • ·to pass (of time); to elapse
    • ·to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
    • ·to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B
    • ·to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B
    • ·to feel A about B
    • ·verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
    • ·creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
    • ·to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to
    N5
  • また
    • ·again; once more; once again; another time; some other time
    • ·also; too; as well; likewise
    • ·on the other hand; while
    • ·and; in addition; besides; moreover; furthermore
    • ·or; otherwise
    • ·really; how; (what, why) on earth
    • ·some time (in the future)
    • ·indirect
    N5
  • ところ
    • ·place; spot; scene; site
    • ·address
    • ·district; area; locality
    • ·one's house
    • ·point; aspect; side; facet
    • ·passage (in text); part
    • ·space; room
    • ·thing; matter
    • ·whereupon; as a result
    • ·about to; on the verge of
    • ·was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing
    • ·approximately; around; about
    N5
  • あまり
    • ·remainder; remnant; rest; balance; surplus; remains (of a meal); leftovers
    • ·(not) very; (not) much
    • ·too much; excessively; overly
    • ·extreme; great; severe; tremendous; terrible
    • ·not very good; so-so; mediocre
    • ·more than; over
    N5
  • 見るみるAs it appears here: 見られなく
    • ·to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe
    • ·to examine; to look over; to assess; to check; to judge
    • ·to look after; to attend to; to take care of; to keep an eye on
    • ·to experience; to meet with (misfortune, success, etc.)
    • ·to try ...; to have a go at ...; to give ... a try
    • ·to see (that) ...; to find (that) ...
    N5
  • なるAs it appears here: なった
    • ·to become; to get; to grow; to turn; to reach; to attain
    • ·to result in; to turn out; to end up; to prove (to be)
    • ·to consist of; to be composed of; to be made up of
    • ·to be completed; to be realized; to succeed; to be attained; to be accomplished
    • ·to change (into); to turn (into); to transform
    • ·to come (to do); to begin (to do); to grow (to do)
    • ·to come to; to amount to; to add up to; to make
    • ·to play (the part of); to act as
    • ·to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as
    • ·to be promoted
    • ·to do ...
    N5
  • 洋服ようふく
    • ·Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
    N5
  • 物もの
    • ·thing; object; article; stuff; substance
    • ·one's things; possessions; property; belongings
    • ·things; something; anything; everything; nothing
    • ·quality
    • ·reason; the way of things
    • ·used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen
    • ·item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...
    • ·cause of ...; cause for ...
    • ·somehow; somewhat; for some reason
    • ·really; truly
    N5
  • 中なか
    • ·inside; interior
    • ·among; within
    • ·middle; center; centre
    • ·during; while; middle; midst; amid
    • ·interval; gap
    • ·mean; average
    • ·second (of three, e.g. sons, volumes); middle
    • ·medium grade; medium quality
    • ·red-light district
    N5
  • ある
    • ·to be; to exist; to live
    • ·to have
    • ·to be located
    • ·to be equipped with
    • ·to happen; to come about
    • ·to exist (in a completed state); to be (something unchanged in its current state)
    N5
  • 水みず
    • ·water (esp. cool or cold)
    • ·fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid
    • ·flood; floodwaters
    • ·water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
    • ·break granted to wrestlers engaged in a prolonged bout
    N5
  • 目め
    • ·eye; eyeball
    • ·eyesight; sight; vision
    • ·look; stare; gaze; glance
    • ·notice; attention; observation; eyes (of the world, public, etc.)
    • ·an experience
    • ·viewpoint
    • ·discrimination; discernment; judgement; eye (e.g. for quality)
    • ·(an) appearance
    • ·chance (of success); possibility (of a good result)
    • ·spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.); opening; stitch; texture; weave
    • ·grain (of wood, paper)
    • ·eye (of a storm, needle, etc.)
    • ·intersection (on a go board); square (on a chessboard)
    • ·dot (on a dice); pip; rolled number
    • ·graduation; division (of a scale)
    • ·tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.)
    • ·ordinal number suffix
    • ·somewhat; -ish
    • ·point (e.g. of change)
    • ·eye (empty space inside a group of stones)
    N5
  • 高いたかいAs it appears here: 高く
    • ·high; tall
    • ·expensive; high-priced
    • ·high (level); above average (in degree, quality, etc.)
    • ·loud
    • ·high-pitched; shrill
    N5
  • 食べ物たべもの
    • ·food
    N5
  • 服ふく
    • ·clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; costume; suit; outfit
    • ·counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
    N5
  • 小さなちいさな
    • ·small; little; tiny
    N5
  • 昔むかし
    • ·the old days; the past; former times; a long time ago
    • ·the past ten years; the past decade
    N4
  • 習慣しゅうかん
    • ·habit
    • ·(social) custom; practice; convention; tradition
    N4
  • 着物きもの
    • ·kimono; Japanese traditional clothing (esp. full-length)
    • ·clothing; clothes
    N4
  • 虫むし
    • ·insect; bug; cricket; moth
    • ·worm; roundworm
    • ·thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious
    • ·nervousness; fretfulness
    • ·person devoted to one thing; single-minded person
    • ·valve core
    • ·mushi (type of game played with a stripped deck)
    N4
  • ため
    • ·good; advantage; benefit; welfare
    • ·sake; purpose; objective; aim
    • ·consequence; result; effect
    • ·affecting; regarding; concerning
    N4
  • 行うおこなう
    • ·to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
    N4
  • 続くつづくAs it appears here: 続いた
    • ·to continue; to last; to go on
    • ·to continue (without a break); to be unbroken
    • ·to occur again and again
    • ·to lead to; to connect to; to adjoin
    • ·to come after; to follow; to succeed; to rank next to
    • ·to hold out; to keep; to last
    N4
  • 通るとおる
    • ·to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
    • ·to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to connect
    • ·to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
    • ·to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
    • ·to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
    • ·to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
    • ·to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
    • ·to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
    • ·to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
    • ·to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
    • ·to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
    • ·to pass for; to come across as; to seem like
    • ·to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
    • ·to be well-informed; to be wise
    • ·to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly
    N4
  • 汚れるよごれるAs it appears here: 汚れた
    • ·to get dirty; to become dirty
    • ·to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
    N4
  • 調べるしらべるAs it appears here: 調べます
    • ·to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study; to inquire; to search
    N4
  • 最近さいきん
    • ·recently; lately; these days; nowadays; right now
    • ·nearest; closest
    N4
  • 合うあうAs it appears here: 合った
    • ·to come together; to merge; to unite; to meet
    • ·to fit; to match; to suit; to agree with; to be correct
    • ·to be profitable; to be equitable
    • ·to do ... to each other; to do ... together
    N4
  • 生活せいかつ
    • ·life; living
    • ·livelihood; (one's) living
    N4
  • 役に立つやくにたつ
    • ·to be helpful; to be useful
    N4
  • 思うおもうAs it appears here: 思います
    • ·to think; to consider; to believe; to reckon
    • ·to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
    • ·to judge; to assess; to regard
    • ·to imagine; to suppose; to dream
    • ·to expect; to look forward to
    • ·to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want
    • ·to care (deeply) for; to yearn for; to worry about; to love
    • ·to recall; to remember
    N4
  • 空気くうき
    • ·air; atmosphere
    • ·mood; situation
    • ·someone with no presence; someone who doesn't stand out at all
    N4
  • 見えるみえるAs it appears here: 見えない
    • ·to be seen; to be visible; to be in sight
    • ·to look; to seem; to appear
    • ·to come
    N4
  • 非常にひじょうに
    • ·very; extremely; exceedingly
    N4
  • 湿気しっけ
    • ·moisture; humidity; dampness
    N2
  • 下旬げじゅん
    • ·last third of a month; 21st to the last day of a month
    N2
  • 上旬じょうじゅん
    • ·first third of a month; first ten days of a month
    N2
  • 乾燥かんそう
    • ·dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); dehydration; desiccation
    • ·insipidity
    N2
  • 工夫くふう
    • ·devising (a way); contriving; inventing; thinking up; figuring out; coming up with; working out
    • ·device; design; idea; plan; invention
    • ·dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
    N2
  • 生えるはえる
    • ·to grow; to spring up; to sprout
    • ·to cut (teeth)
    N2
  • 終わるおわるAs it appears here: 終わった
    • ·to end; to come to an end; to finish; to close; to be over
    • ·to finish; to complete; to conclude
    • ·to finish doing
    • ·to be past its (one's) prime
    • ·to be awful; to be terrible; to suck; to be hopeless
    N1
Grammar4 patterns

Example sentences are translated by AI.

  • というN3

    Quotative marker plus 'say' that introduces a name, definition, or reported content — 'called', 'known as', 'that (one) says'.

    日本には昔から、「虫干し」という習慣があります。

    Japan has long had a custom called “mushiboshi.”

  • ためにN3

    marks a purpose ('in order to') or a cause ('because of / owing to').

    着物の湿気を取り、虫やカビなどを防ぐためのものです。

    Its purpose is to remove moisture from kimono and prevent insects, mold, and the like.

  • あまり〜ないN3

    The degree adverb あまり, typically with a following negative, expresses a limited degree, "not very / not much."

    最近あまり見られなくなった習慣ですが、日本の気候に合った生活の工夫として、現代の洋服にも役に立つのではないかと思います。

    This custom is not seen very often these days, but I think that, as a way of living suited to Japan’s climate, it could also be useful for modern Western-style clothing.

  • としてN3

    Marks the role, capacity, or status in which someone or something acts — "as (a doctor / a rule / etc.)".

    最近あまり見られなくなった習慣ですが、日本の気候に合った生活の工夫として、現代の洋服にも役に立つのではないかと思います。

    This custom is not seen very often these days, but I think that, as a way of living suited to Japan’s climate, it could also be useful for modern Western-style clothing.

Other levels11 patterns
  • ではないかN2

    Rhetorically seeks agreement or expresses a realization — 'isn't it? / right? / surely.'

    最近あまり見られなくなった習慣ですが、日本の気候に合った生活の工夫として、現代の洋服にも役に立つのではないかと思います。

    This custom is not seen very often these days, but I think that, as a way of living suited to Japan’s climate, it could also be useful for modern Western-style clothing.

  • などN4

    Lists one or more representative items and implies others of the same kind exist — 'and so on / etc. / such as'.

    着物の湿気を取り、虫やカビなどを防ぐためのものです。

    Its purpose is to remove moisture from kimono and prevent insects, mold, and the like.

  • 間（あいだ）N4

    Marks a span of time or space throughout which, or between whose endpoints, something else continuously holds — 'while; during; between'.

    梅雨の間に着物が湿気を含んでしまうからです。

    This is because kimono absorb moisture during the rainy season.

  • 〜てしまう / 〜ちゃうN4

    Verb te-form plus しまう, marking an action as fully completed or done regrettably/by accident — 'end up ...ing' / 'finish ...ing'; ちゃう/じゃう is the casual contraction.

    梅雨の間に着物が湿気を含んでしまうからです。

    This is because kimono absorb moisture during the rainy season.

  • 頃（ころ / ごろ）N4

    Suffix/noun marking an approximate point in time; 'around (the time of), about when, back when'.

    2、3日晴れて乾燥した日が続いたあと、午前10時から午後3時ごろまで、風がよく通る部屋で、着物が風に当たるようにします。

    After two or three consecutive sunny, dry days, the kimono are exposed to the air in a well-ventilated room from around 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

  • ようにするN4

    Expresses making an ongoing effort or arranging things so that something does or doesn't happen — "make sure to / try to (do regularly)".

    2、3日晴れて乾燥した日が続いたあと、午前10時から午後3時ごろまで、風がよく通る部屋で、着物が風に当たるようにします。

    After two or three consecutive sunny, dry days, the kimono are exposed to the air in a well-ventilated room from around 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

  • ところN4

    Marks the temporal stage of an action — 'about to,' 'in the middle of,' or 'just did' — depending on the preceding verb form.

    また、その間に汚れたところはないか調べます。

    During that time, they are also checked for any dirty spots.

  • と思う（とおもう）N4

    Quotative plus 'think', stating the speaker's opinion or guess — 'I think that'.

    最近あまり見られなくなった習慣ですが、日本の気候に合った生活の工夫として、現代の洋服にも役に立つのではないかと思います。

    This custom is not seen very often these days, but I think that, as a way of living suited to Japan’s climate, it could also be useful for modern Western-style clothing.

  • がありますN52 times in this passage

    States the existence or possession of an inanimate thing, "there is / to have".

    日本には昔から、「虫干し」という習慣があります。

    Japan has long had a custom called “mushiboshi.”

  • だ / ですN54 times in this passage

    The copula linking a noun or na-adjective to the subject — plain だ / polite です, 'is/am/are'.

    着物の湿気を取り、虫やカビなどを防ぐためのものです。

    Its purpose is to remove moisture from kimono and prevent insects, mold, and the like.

  • までN5

    Particle marking the spatial, temporal, or extent limit of an action — "until / up to / as far as."

    2、3日晴れて乾燥した日が続いたあと、午前10時から午後3時ごろまで、風がよく通る部屋で、着物が風に当たるようにします。

    After two or three consecutive sunny, dry days, the kimono are exposed to the air in a well-ventilated room from around 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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