I don't mind since I'm used to it, but the first guy who thought about making a hearse with a golden roof on top of it, he must have had quite bad taste.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

How is it that otherwise reasonable people come to believe that this same roof, that practically vanishing commodity, is freely obtainable just by packing up and going to another country?

Hawai, y'know, has a lot of houses with fireplaces doesn't it? The mornings and evenings over there get cold as well so people who feel the cold light fires.

On the day of the spring and autumn equinox, the sun makes a long jagged shadow on the balustrade, and it joins the big serpent's stone head at the bottom of the staircase.

Because lacquer was commonly used in the process of gilding, this proves that the tile piece was once gilded.

It’s called chochin or paper lantern. We don’t use it anymore now, but in the old days, people used to carry it around at night with a candle in it.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, many of the city’s Romanesque and Gothic buildings were remodeled in the baroque style, the popular style at the time.

There are many souvenir stands that sell folk crafts such as woodcrafts, corn-peel dolls, Easter eggs, and postcards.

In some Japanese discotheques young women climb on a long, raised platform and dance to the music, showing their white thighs and even their underwear.

But during an archaeological survey prior to construction, stone walls, a great number of pillars, roof tiles, and other castle materials were found.

Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster.

Suddenly, I remembered my deceased grandfather had studied architecture in his youth and had left many architecture books and drafting tools at our house.

It is the border-line cases that are always in danger: the dignified buildings of the past which may possess no real artistic or historic value, but which people have become sentimentally attached to and have grown to love.

This is a little more expensive than ordinary gravestones, but there are some people who are interested and have come all the way to the stone dealer’s store just to see the prototype.

A building with high ceilings and huge rooms may be less practical than the colorless block of offices that takes its place, but it often fits in well with its surroundings.

a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law

He has designed many well-known concert halls, including Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Old homes, especially traditional Japanese ones, can be damp and unfriendly to modern life.

They were probably made more than 250 years ago, and are thought to be the oldest pressed flowers ever found in Japan.

The clear and refreshing sound of the wind chimes is one of the characteristics of summers in Japan, but in recent years the number of people who perceive it merely as noise has been increasing.

I've always thought that rickshaws and sukiyaki were the most successful amongst the products made from what was imported from the West during the Meiji period.

However, a 33-year-old man who walked by the house said, “Some people may not like the design, but I think it’s cute. Personally, I like it.”

a plate‐glass university

These include a Predator suit and a life-size figure of the Terminator from the famous movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

He took the piece to school and an investigation by Kobe's education board revealed that it is in fact part of a bronze mirror that was made in China about 2,000 years ago.

A church in Los Angeles has decided to press charges against a homeless man who stole a few cookies from the church's cookie jar.

It is highly possible that the ukiyo-e was printed in 1711, nine years after the incident occurred on Dec. 14, 1702.

Japan, France and five other countries have jointly recommended 17 buildings designed by the world-renowned Swiss-French architect.

Most Japanese athletes used old foreign-made sleighs at that time and we concluded we had the necessary skills to make sleighs.

The house isn't huge and it's on about two-thirds of an acre, and when we first bought it I spent several hours every week getting the lawnmower fixed and cutting the lawn, in that order.

I preferred wearing my Hawaiian T-shirt and green shorts to be cool and different, but I quickly got used to the white shirt and black slacks.