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Similar to English, a falling tone denotes a statement, and a rising tone a question. Its use to mark statements tends to be more typical of feminine speech. See also Gender differences in spoken Japanese. Nouns: possession ex. a sensei no kuruma 先生の車: the teacher's car Noun: possession ex. b watashi no konpyuuta 私の ...
Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment. Its phrases are exclusively head-final and compound sentences are exclusively left-branching. [a] Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or make questions.
Ie (家) is a Japanese term which translates directly to household. It can mean either a physical home or refer to a family's lineage. It is popularly used as the "traditional" family structure. The physical definition of an ie consists of an estate that includes a house, rice paddies and vegetable gardens, and its own section in the local ...
The following is a list of alumni of Uchi and Uchiko who are currently operating their own restaurants or running kitchens: Blake Aguillard (chef-owner, Saint-Germain in New Orleans) Take Asazu ...
Uchi–soto is the distinction between in-groups (内, uchi, "inside") and out-groups (外, soto, "outside"). [1] This distinction between groups is a fundamental part of Japanese social custom and sociolinguistics and is even directly reflected in the Japanese language itself.
Giri [1] [2] is a Japanese value roughly corresponding to "duty", "obligation", or even "burden of obligation" in English. Namiko Abe [clarification needed] defines it as "to serve one's superiors with a self-sacrificing devotion". [citation needed] It is among the complex Japanese values that involve loyalty, gratitude, and moral debt. [3]
Uto (鳥兎) or Miken (眉間): Between the eyes, nation; Kasumi (霞): Temple of the head; Jinchu (人中): Below the nose, philtrum; Zen-keibu (前頸部): Front side of neck with the Adam's apple; Gwanto or Kachikake or Shita-ago (下顎): Point of the chin; Dokko (独鈷): Mastoid process; Suigetsu (水月) or Mizu-ochi (水落): Solar plexus
These theories are mainly based on grammatical differences between east and west, but Haruhiko Kindaichi classified mainland Japanese into concentric circular three groups: inside (Kansai, Shikoku, etc.), middle (Western Kantō, Chūbu, Chūgoku, etc.) and outside (Eastern Kantō, Tōhoku, Izumo, Kyushu, Hachijō, etc.) based on systems of ...