nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: When Changgong GAO therefore took off his helmet to reveal his face, the gate guard recognized him by his incomparably beautiful countenance and opened the gate; this enabled Changgong GAO to safely break through the besieging enemy forces and contribute to the liberation of Rakuyo.
Japanese: そのため高長恭が兜を脱ぎ顔を晒した所、類まれな美貌にその正体を悟った門兵が扉を開き、無事に包囲を破って洛陽の解放に貢献した。
English: The dancer wears scarlet silk ho (outer robe or vestment) with kamon (one of yusoku-monyo, traditional design motifs) embroidery and on top of that, wear sleeveless kantoi (simple type of clothing consisting of a large piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head) called keberi no ryoto (sleeveless poncho with fur edging, worn on top of outer robe) and tie golden obi (sash for kimono).
Japanese: 緋色の紗地に窠紋の刺繍をした袍を用い、その上に毛縁の裲襠(りょうとう)と呼ばれる袖の無い貫頭衣を着装し、金帯を締める。
English: In that case, the dancer put a maetengan (a charm of the front of cap) with a cherry kazashi (snapped branch of cherry flower or tree put in the hair or the cap) instead of bugaku mask, and wears similar stage makeup as Kabuki Buyo (Dance of Kabuki [traditional drama performed by male actors]).
Japanese: その場合は、舞楽面を着けずに桜の挿頭花を挿した前天冠を着け、歌舞伎舞踊と同様の舞台化粧をする場合がある。
English: Also it is sometimes used for name of a cloth with one haba, and unit to count number of the cloth.
Japanese: 転じて、一幅分の布そのものやその個数を数える単位としても用いられる事がある。
English: One haba is equivalent of one shaku (Japanese measure) of Kujirajaku (measuring stick used in kimono-making), which is 37.8 cm (which is 1.25 shaku of carpenter's square used commonly).
Japanese: 1幅は鯨尺1尺（一般的に使われる曲尺の1.25尺・メートル法では37.8センチメートル）に相当する。
English: However, originally, one shaku in the gofukujaku system (abolished in the early Meiji period and integrated into the Kujirajaku) had been counted as one haba, but the above-mentioned rule is rarely applied as is nowadays, more than 100 years after the reform.
Japanese: ただし本来は呉服尺（明治時代初期に廃止されて鯨尺に統合）1尺を1幅として数えられ続けられていたものであり、100年以上経過した現代社会においても上記原則通りに行われるケースは稀である。
English: General users, such as Gofuku-ya kimono shop, use kohaba (narrow width) or namihaba (standard cloth width), which are equivalent to one shaku of the gofukujaku system, 35.9 cm (9 sun 5 bu in Kujirajaku), as cloth of one haba.
Japanese: 呉服屋を初めとする一般的な利用者は小幅あるいは並幅と呼ばれている呉服尺1尺に相当する鯨尺9寸5分（約35.9cm）幅のものを1幅の布として用いている。
English: In addition to this, there are chuhaba (medium width), which is equivalent to 45.4cm (one shaku and two bu in Kujakujaku), and ohaba (full width) or futano (double width) that are equivalent to 72.0 cm (one shaku and nine sun in Kujakujaku), which is double the width of kohaba.
Japanese: この他にも中幅と呼ばれる鯨尺1尺2分（約45.4cm）ほどの物や小幅2倍分に相当する大幅あるいは二幅（ふたの）と呼ばれている鯨尺1尺9寸（約72.0cm）の物がある。
English: Moreover, imitating wafuku, fabric for western clothes also have units such as single haba (single width) or yard haba (cloth one yard wide) that are equivalent to 71 cm, and double of those called double haba (double width), which is equivalent to approximately 142 cm (sometimes this is called ohaba).
Japanese: 更に洋服の布地においても和服に倣ってシングル幅あるいはヤール幅（約71cm）やその2倍にあたるダブル幅（約142cm、こちらを「大幅」と呼ぶ場合もある）の物がある。
English: It is a very graceful dance in which two gakunin (players) dance with their sleeve waving, and is well known for appearing in the scene of Momiji no Ga (The Autumn Excursion) in "Genji Monogatari" (The Tale of Genji).
Japanese: 二人の楽人がゆったりと袖を振りながら舞う非常に優美な舞で、源氏物語紅葉賀の場面に取り上げられたことで有名。
English: The players wear shitagasane (long inner robe) embroidered with patterns of seigaiha pattern and haze, hanpi (sleeveless body wear) with peony patterns woven onto them, and ho (outer robe or vestment) embroidered with plover patterns while exposing their right shoulder through the ho as they carry a sword and wear betsukabuto (headpiece for mai, a formal, traditional Japanese dance).
Japanese: 青海波と霞の模様が刺繍された下襲に、牡丹などが織られた半臂をまとい、チドリ科が刺繍された袍の右肩を袒ぎ、太刀を佩き、別甲をかぶる。
English: One well known variety of hakama is also called the 'sashinuki' and features a cord that is run through the hem and drawn tight.
Japanese: 有名なのは指貫（さしぬき）とも呼ばれる、裾を紐で指し貫いて絞れるようにした袴。
English: Kukurio no hakama originally emerged as clothing worn by commoners during the Nara period, but became adopted by the noble class in the Heian period with the traditional hemp fabric being replaced by silk and tailored into longer styles using fabrics such as plain silk, twill fabric, kata-ori and brocade.
Japanese: もと奈良時代ごろに庶民の衣服として登場したが、平安時代に入って貴族階級に取り入れられ、素材もそれまでの麻から絹物に代わり、平絹（へいけん）・綾（あや）・固織物（かたおりもの）・浮織物（うきおりもの）などでより大きく長々と仕立てられるようになった。
English: Sashinuki are generally made using eight pieces of fabric with four used for each leg (nowadays, each piece measures 1-shaku 2-sun (36cm) in width.
Japanese: 指貫は原則、生地が八巾で片足に四巾取る（八幅/やの/現在の一幅は一尺二寸。
English: Each leg measures approximately 180 cm in circumference) but those worn by Shinto priests are narrower than this.
Japanese: 大体片足分は180cm前後）が、神職の衣装ではさらに細身に仕立てる。
English: The cord is usually the same color as the garment, but young nobles would wear a white and purple cord known as a 'harajiro.'
Japanese: 紐は普通は袴と同色だが、若い貴族には「腹白」という紫と白の組み紐も用いられた。
English: During the mid-Heian period, women such as uneme (lower-ranking court ladies) wore sashinuki while riding horses.
Japanese: また、平安時代中期には采女などの女性が乗馬する際にも指貫を履いていた。
English: There were no regulations governing the color of sashinuki but it is thought that bright colors such as ebizome (a very light purple dye) were used.
Japanese: 指貫の色は規定こそ無かったが葡萄染（えびぞめ/ワイン色）などの華やかな物を用いたらしい。
English: Sashinuki naturally consisted of excess fabric but were tied with a cord at the knee or ankle in order to allow freedom of movement.
Japanese: 当然布の余り分が出てくるが、動きにくくならないように裾を膝あたりやくるぶしに紐で括ってたるませていた。
English: Allowing the excess length of the cord to hang down and tying it at the ankle in a style known as 'gekukuri' was the normal way of wearing sashinuki while tying the cord above or below the knee was known as 'shokukuri' and not favored as it displays the lower leg but was adopted when playing kemari (Japanese ancient Imperial court game like kick-ball) or in emergencies.
Japanese: 紐の余りを長く垂らしてくるぶしで括るのは「下括り」といって平常の着付けで、膝の上か下に括る「上括り」は脛が出て格好が悪いため蹴鞠をするときや緊急時の着付け。
English: Since the Edo period, samurai families turned to frequently wearing sashinuki suspended from the waist in a 'hikiage shitate' style which remains used today.
Japanese: 江戸時代以降、武家が頻繁に指貫を用いるようになってからは、裾を括らずに腰から吊り下げる「引上仕立」（ひきあげしたて）が使われるようになり、現在はこちらが主流。
English: It was worn with hoko (a personal style of formal dress in which a sokutai (old ceremonial court dress) hakama has been replaced with a sashinuki), noshi (an unlined, long-sleeved garment), kariginu (a narrow hakama was used with kariginu until the period of cloistered rule) and a variety of colors were worn depending on age and status.
Japanese: 布袴（ほうこ/束帯の袴を指貫に置き換えたもので私的な式での礼装）、直衣、狩衣（狩衣には院政期までは差袴と言う細身の袴を使用）と一緒に着用され、さまざまな色を年齢や状況に合わせて使った。
English: The fabric used in winter was glossy silk (a fabric created using a tight weave) whereas any lightweight fabric could be used in summer depending on climate.
Japanese: 生地も冬は練絹（目の詰まった絹織物）、夏は薄物を気候に応じて自由に使っていた。
English: Regulations dictating which fabrics could be used had been established since the period of cloistered rule, which stated that woven fabrics were to be worn during formal events and lightweight or twill fabrics were to be used for everyday wear.
Japanese: 院政期以降に使用する生地に規定が出来て、式典などの晴れの舞台では織物、日常着には綾や薄物が使用された。
English: Muromachi period regulations dictated that generally only kuge (court nobles) were allowed to wear fabrics bearing crests and that colors were to change from purple to pale indigo to light blue to white as ones age increased.
Japanese: 室町期の規定では、紋がつくのは原則公卿のみで、色は年の若い順に紫、縹、浅葱、白。
English: The designs worn by retired emperors and imperial princes were 'hachiyogiku' (eight leaved chrysanthemum), 'rindo karakusa' (gentian floral pattern), 'kumo tatewaku' (vertical seething clouds, this design was previously also used by regents and the father of the imperial advisor but now only worn by imperial princes), and many kuge wore 'yato maru' (eight wisteria circle), young men wore 'fusecho no maru' (prostrated butterfly circle) on a tortoise shell patterned fabric, boys wore designs including 'toridasuki' (interlocking circular units comprising eight stylized birds around a central floral diamond) while there were also cases in which a family would use a particular design.
Japanese: 文様は、（近世以降天皇は指貫を穿かなくなった）上皇や親王は「八葉菊」「竜胆唐草」「雲立涌」（雲立涌はかつて摂政や太閤も使ったが、現代の親王は雲立涌のみ）、公卿に多かったのは「八藤丸」で、少年は「亀甲地紋に臥蝶丸」若年者は「鳥襷」なども使った他、一族で固有の文様を使う場合もあった。
English: Hanpi is a formal court dress of military officers and a bugaku (traditional Japanese court music accompanied by dancing) costume, which are a sleeveless body wear worn underneath ho (outer robe/vestment).
Japanese: 半臂（はんぴ）とは、武官束帯や舞楽の装束で、袍の下に着る袖なしの胴着のこと。
English: It is a sleeveless silk dogi (padded undershirt) of which the migoro (body of the garment) is made using double width cloth and has a tarikubi (v-neck overlap) like that of a kimono (Japanese traditional clothing).
Japanese: 身頃が布二幅分ぐらいの袖の無い、着物のような打ち合わせ（垂領）のある絹の胴着。
English: A cloth called Ran, which is made with a cut of the same cloth, is sewed on around of hem, with gathers at side and back for ease of movement.
Japanese: 裾に共布で欄（らん）と呼ばれる布がぐるりと縫い付けられていて、動きやすいように横と背後に襞がたたんである。
English: For sokutai (traditional ceremonial court dress), it is in black (originally dark suo (deep dark red)) like ho and has no sleeve, and for bugaku costume, it is made with colorful woven fabric and has narrow sleeve.
Japanese: 束帯の場合は袍と同じ黒（本来は濃蘇芳）で袖が無いが、舞楽装束では色鮮やかな織物で仕立てごく狭い袖がついている。
English: The fact is that civil officers also wore hanpi as well as military officers, but the custom fell into disuse.
Japanese: 実は、当初は武官だけでなく文官もこの半臂をつけていたのだが廃れてしまった。
English: Unlike civil officer's wear, side of ho is not sewed for court dress of military officers or bugaku costume, from which hanpi is showing and this is why it is still used at present.
Japanese: 文官と違って武官や舞楽の衣装の袍は脇が縫われていないので、半臂が外に覗くため現在まで残っている。
English: This decorative cord is called 'wasure-o' (a narrow decorative strap used for hanpi garment), which is made with ra (loosely woven sheer silk fabric like net) of 3m65.8cm length and 10cm width.
Japanese: この飾り紐は「忘れ緒」と呼ばれるもので、羅（ら/網を連想させるような目の粗い薄絹）で長さ一丈二尺、幅三寸三分の帯形に作る。
English: Although it is futarimai (dance in pairs) in Koma-ichikotsucho (one of Japanese chromatic scale based on Em) that belongs in uho (the right side), also known as Komagaku music, the piece is called 'Rakuson' when performed as hitorimai (solo dance).
Japanese: 右方（高麗楽）に属する高麗壱越調（こまいちこつちょう）の二人舞だが、一人舞の場合は曲名を「落蹲」と言う。
English: In Nanto gakusho, however, the piece is called 'Nasori' in hitorimai and 'Rakuson' in futarimai.
Japanese: 但し、南都楽所では一人舞の場合は曲名を「納曽利」、二人舞の場合は「落蹲」と呼ぶ。
English: Players wear Bugaku (court dance and music) masks representing deep blue-colored dragon heads and carry silver drumsticks.
Japanese: 紺青色の龍頭を模した舞楽面を着け、銀色の桴（ばち/細い棒のこと）を携える。
English: They wear ho (outer robe or vestment) embroidered with kamon (one of yusoku-monyo, traditional design motifs) on yellow-colored silk gauze, and keberi no ryoto (sleeveless poncho with fur edging worn, on top of outer robe), a type of kantoi (simple type of clothing consisting of a large piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head) over the ho, and do up a silver band.
Japanese: 黄色系統の色の紗地に窠紋の刺繍をした袍を用い、その上に毛縁の裲襠(りょうとう)と呼ばれる袖の無い貫頭衣を着装し、銀帯を締める。
English: Women, as well as boys and girls, may also perform the dance, in which case they may put on maetengan (a charm of the front of cap) with kazashi (snapped branch of flower or tree put in the hair or the cap) in it and wear stage makeup as in Kabuki dance, without wearing Bugaku masks.
Japanese: 女性や少年少女が舞う場合もあり、その場合は、舞楽面を着けずに山吹の挿頭花を挿した前天冠を着け、歌舞伎舞踊と同様の舞台化粧をする場合がある。
English: It was widely worn until early Showa era, but thereafter current panties (a pair of shorts) replaced it.
Japanese: 昭和初期まで広く着用されていたが、その後現在のパンティー（ショーツ）に代わられた。
English: There is a popular belief that yumoji went out of fashion because of a fire happened at Shirokiya department store.
Japanese: 1932年の白木屋(デパート)白木屋火事が廃れた原因だとする俗説がある。
English: It is believed to originate from a song about lotus in the official residence of Jian WANG, the prime minister of the Jin Dynasty,
Japanese: 晋(王朝)の大臣（丞相）である王倹の官邸の蓮を歌った歌が原曲とされる。
English: It was originally written as 相府蓮 in Chinese characters, which meant 'lotus in Joshofu' (lotus in the official residence of a minister), but since the characters '相府' and '想夫,' which literally means longing for a man or husband, shared the same pronunciation, it later came to be a singing piece about a woman longing for a man.
Japanese: 本来の表記は「丞相府（じょうしょうふ/大臣の官邸のこと）の蓮」をあらわす相府蓮であったが、「相府」と「想夫」の音が通じることから後に、男性を慕う女性の恋情を歌う曲とされた。
English: Buri daikon is a dish in which ara (discarded portions) of buri is broiled in soy sauce with daikon.
Japanese: ぶり大根（ぶりだいこん）とはブリのアラをダイコンと一緒に醤油で煮たもの。
English: Put the buri, the daikon and thinly sliced ginger into a pan, add soy sauce, mirin (sweet cooking rice wine) and sugar in moderate amounts, and then boil until the daikon is colored.
Japanese: ブリと大根、薄切り生姜を鍋に入れ、醤油、みりん、砂糖を適量入れて大根に色が染みるまで煮る。
English: It is a dish in which burdock root, boiled beforehand, is wrapped with thinly sliced meat such as beef and pork, broiled in a frying pan, dressed with seasonings like soy sauce, sugar, and so on.
Japanese: 薄切りの肉（牛肉・豚肉など）で下ゆでしたゴボウを巻き、フライパン等で焼き付け、醤油・砂糖などの調味料を加えて煮絡めたもの。
English: It has often been made as an osechi food (special dish prepared for the New Year) in place of gobo no nishime (burdock root cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and water) in recent years.
Japanese: 近年ではゴボウの煮染めの代わりとして御節料理の一つとして作られることが多い。
English: As a boiled fish-paste product, it may refer to burdock root that is wrapped in minced fish and is fried in oil.
Japanese: 魚肉練り製品の一つとして、ゴボウを魚のすり身で包み、油で揚げたものを指すことがある。
English: It is a type of Satsuma-age (fried fish cake), often called 'goboten,' meaning tenpura (Japanese deep-fried dish) of burdock root.
Japanese: いわゆる薩摩揚げの一種で、「ゴボウ天（ゴボ天）」（ゴボウの天ぷらの意）と呼ばれることも少なくない。
English: Some are made with fish such as eso (lizardfish) and guchi (white croaker) which are made into kamaboko (boiled fish paste).
Japanese: 蒲鉾の材料になる魚（エソ・グチ等）の魚皮を用いて作られるものがある。
English: It is served in teriyaki style in which fish is cut into fillets and its skin, without the meat, is dipped in tare (sauce made with soy sauce, sake, and other seasonings) and wrapped around a piece of burdock root, sometimes with its minced fish wrapped under the skin.
Japanese: 三枚におろし、身を除いた魚の皮をたれに漬け込み、ゴボウの周囲に巻き付け（皮を巻く前にすり身を巻き付ける場合もあり）、照り焼きにしたものである。
English: Originally born out of a reused by-product of kamaboko, it is now often appreciated as a delicacy, as kamaboko has been increasingly made from frozen minced fish.
Japanese: 元々は蒲鉾の副産物の再利用から生まれたものであるが、蒲鉾の原材料に冷凍すり身を使うことも増えてきた現在では珍味として重宝されることも多い。
English: It is famously produced in Kinan or Nanki, Wakayama Prefecture including Tanabe City and Chohoku region, Yamaguchi Prefecture including Hagi City.
Japanese: 和歌山県和歌山県紀南/南紀（田辺市等）と山口県長北地区（萩市等）のものが知られている。
English: There is also gobo wrapped in unagi (eel), which is rarely called 'umaki,' though umaki originally referred to a rolled omelet with broiled unagi as a core.
Japanese: また、ウナギでゴボウを巻いた物もあり、稀にこれが「う巻き」（本来はウナギの蒲焼を巻き込んだ卵焼き）と称されることもある。
English: The term "shitagasane" refers to an inner robe which is put on between ho (outer robe/vestment) and hanpi (sleeveless body wear) when wearers put on a sokutai (traditional ceremonial court dress) or an ikan shozoku (traditional formal court dress).
Japanese: 下襲（したがさね）とは、束帯及び衣冠装束のとき袍と半臂の間に着る衣服。
English: While wearers were taking part in an outdoor activity, for example, on an imperial visit, its hem was put behind the sekitai, a leather belt, so that it would not hinder them from moving.
Japanese: 行幸などで屋外で活動する際には、石帯に下襲の裾を挟んで邪魔にならないようにしていた。
English: However, in the regents and chancellors period, there was a time when only young male members of the imperial family put on a shitagasane on noshi shozoku (everyday clothes for nobles), which was referred to as 'okimisugata style' (relaxed style with everyday clothes for an emperor or an imperial prince).
Japanese: だが、摂関期には若い皇族男子のみ「大君姿」と称して直衣装束に下襲を重ねることがあった。
English: It had been mainly manufactured in Konan region, China, and also in Japan as a type of Japanese paper.
Japanese: 主として中国・江南で作られていたが、日本でも和紙の一種として一部において作られていた。
English: Although it is very thin, its spread of sumi ink is good and is strong against insect, so that many literati loved it, as paper used for calligraphic works and paintings.
Japanese: 薄く破れやすいが墨引が良く、虫に対して丈夫なために書画に用いる紙として文人達に愛された。
English: Formerly, chikushi made in the Province of Hui Ji, which was famous bamboo production area and was well known in Eastern Jin Dynasty, but for long time it had been treated as poor quality paper due to its weakness and lack of durability.
Japanese: 古くは東晋において竹の産地として知られていた会稽郡の竹紙が著名であったが、脆弱性と耐久性の無さから長く下質な紙として扱われてきた。
English: However, with improvement made in the Northern Song Dynasty Period, chikushi paper became stronger, which Wang Anshi and Su Shi (Chinese poet) favored because of its gloss, color development of sumi ink and color retention.
Japanese: だが、北宋時代に改良が加えられてより丈夫になり、また王安石や蘇軾がその光沢や墨の発色ぶりと保色性を高く評価してこれを寵愛した。
English: Because of these, chikushi had replaced wisteria paper and mashi (paper made of hemp), the former high quality papers, and had become used for letter and calligraphic work and paintings.
Japanese: この事から、従来の高級紙であった藤紙や麻紙に代わって、書簡や書画に用いられるようになった。
English: Minteki, a type of flute, has acoustic bore to stick chikushi, which vibrate to give out unique sound and the sound reverberates better when the flute is played.
Japanese: 笛の一種民笛にはこの竹紙を張るための響穴があり、吹いた際に竹紙が振動することにより独特の音が出、より音が響く。
English: Chikushi made from henon bamboo or black bamboo is used for the flute because it is thin, provides an airtight seal, and can easily be pasted onto the flute with saliva.
Japanese: 竹紙の薄く、また空気を通さず、唾で容易に張り付くといった性質を利用したものであり、淡竹や黒竹のものが使用されている。
English: There are no serviceable substitutes, but some people use a cellophane tape if they cannot obtain one, as a desperate resort.
Japanese: 特に有用な代用品は無く、手に入らない場合苦肉の策としてセロハンテープを張る者もいる。
English: However it is not a favorable choice, as it damages the surface of flute, and the sound is bad because the cellophane tape cannot produce enough vibration.
Japanese: しかし、十分な振動が得られないため音が悪く、笛の表面を傷めることもあるため、好ましくない行為である。
English: Presently, such flutes are not widely used because they require too much effort in that chikushi has to be collected, techniques for pasting chikushi to the flute by making appropriate adjustments have to be employed, chikushi breaks easily, and the sound produced by these flutes varies depending on the level of humidity.
Japanese: こういった笛は、竹紙を採取しなければならないこと、うまく調整して張る技術が必要とされること、破れやすいこと、乾湿により響きが変わることなど、手間がかかるものであるため現在は広く使用されているものではない。
English: However, such flutes can still be heard in matsuri-bayashi (Japanese music), of Takenge festival in Nagasaki, Hita Gion Matsuri Festival, Karatsu Kunchi Festival and Hamasaki Gion Yamagasa Festival.
Japanese: しかし、長崎の竹ん芸、日田祇園祭、唐津くんち、浜崎祇園山笠などの祭囃子で聴くことができる。
English: Happi (written 法被) coat is worn at festival, and also is a craft man's livery coat with the crest or name of store on the back and lapels.
Japanese: 法被（はっぴ）とは、祭などの際に着用し、また、職人などが着用する印半纏のことである。
English: Generally it is in style of haori (a Japanese half-coat) with waist or knee length and it has feature of simple Tsutsusode (kimono with tubular style of sleeve) or hirosode (a wide sleeve) shape, without a lapel or breast cord.
Japanese: 一般に、腰丈または膝丈の羽織の形式で、襟の折返しも胸紐もなく、筒袖または広袖の単純な形をしているのが特徴である。
English: Originally samurai wore a happi coat with large family crest undyed, and craft man and fire brigade also started to wear.
Japanese: 元々、武士が家紋を大きく染め抜いた法被を着用したのに始まり、それを職人や町火消なども着用するようになった。
English: Original a happi coat was hitoe (a single layer of kimono) compared to a hanten (a short coat originally for craftsmen worn over a kimono), which was awase (lined garment), but the two lost a difference in the end of Edo Period.
Japanese: 本来の法被は胸紐つきの単（ひとえ）であるのに対し、半纏は袷（あわせ）であるが、江戸時代末期に区別がなくなった。
English: Person's membership, name and intension can be indicated by vertically lettering in collar to chest area.
Japanese: 襟から胸元にかけて縦に文字を入れる事でその人の所属や名、意思を表したりする事が出来る。
English: Word 'happi' is said to originate from 'hanpi', the sleeveless body wear worn underneath ho (outer robe/vestment), which was put on when sokutai (traditional ceremonial court dress) is worn in ancient time.
Japanese: 「はっぴ」という語は、古代、束帯を着る際に袍（ほう）の下に着用した袖のない胴衣「半臂」（はんぴ）に由来するとされる。
English: Kanji '法被' is also used for 'happi' that is a cloth hanged from backrest of a chair for high priest but it is believed to be just a phonetic-equivalent character, as there is no connection with happi coat.
Japanese: 「法被」の字は、高僧が座る椅子の背もたれに掛ける布のことを「法被」（はっぴ）というが、衣服の法被と全く関連がないことから、単なる宛て字と見られている。
English: Presently happi coat is worn not only in festival, but also for various occasions like supporting in sport event, such as baseball, and a costume of shop assistant at sale in department store.
Japanese: 最近では、お祭りのみならず、プロ野球などのスポーツの応援や百貨店・デパートなどのセール時に店員が着る衣装などさまざまな用途に使われている。
English: "Tako to Ama" is a woodblock print by Hokusai KATSUSHIKA, which was included in the enpon (pornography) "Kinoe no Komatsu" published around 1820.
Japanese: 『蛸と海女』は葛飾北斎による1820年頃の艶本『喜能会之故真通』（きのえのこまつ）の中の木版画の一枚。
English: The small octopus is kissing her on the lips while the big octopus is giving her cunnilingus.
Japanese: 小蛸の方からは口吸い（接吻）を受け、大蛸は彼女にクンニリングスしている。
English: I've wanted you for such a long time; it is paying off today, and I finally got you!
Japanese: いつぞハいつぞハとねらいすましてゐたかいがあつて、けふといふけふ、とうとうとらまへたア。
English: Now it's time to suck all of you off, and after making you full of joy, maybe I should take you to the Palace of the Dragon King.
Japanese: サアサア、すつてすつてすいつくして、たんのふさせてから、いつそ竜宮へつれていつてかこつておこうか。
English: You're sucking the mouth of my womb, making me breathless, and oh, I'm coming, your suckers, oh, your suckers, oh, I wonder what you're doing with these!
Japanese: エエ、いつそ、アレアレ、おくの子宮のくちをすハれるので、いきがはずんで、アエエモイツク、いぼで、エエウウ、いぼで、アウアウ、そらわれをいろいろと、アレアレ、こりやどうするのだ。
English: I've never expected this much from octopuses, and I can't believe it!
Japanese: いままでわたしをば人が、アアフフウアアフウ、たこだたこだといったがの、もうもうどふして、どふして、エエ、この、ずずず
English: Yeah, yeah, you like the way my eight arms are all over you?
Japanese: ぐちやぐちやズウズウ、なんと八ほんのあしのからミあんばいハどうだどうだ。
English: Oh, it's getting ticklish, and I'm getting weak in the waist. I'm losing control and coming!
Japanese: アアモウくすぐつたくなつて、ぞろぞろとこしにおぼへがなくなつて、きりもさかひもなく、のそのそといきつづけだな。
English: With my suckers, I'm going to rub and suck it all out from the clitoris to the pores!
Japanese: おやかたがしまふと、またおれがこのいぼで陰核から毛穴までこすつてこすつてきをやらせたうへですいだしてやる（右画像では途切れ）
English: Kaneto SHINDO directed the 1981 movie "Hokusai Manga," starring Ken OGATA and Yuko TANAKA, which depicted Hokusai's life.
Japanese: 新藤兼人は緒形拳、田中裕子主演で1981年の映画『北斎漫画(映画)』を監督し北斎の一生を描いた。
English: David LAITY imitated the picture in the same English title, The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.
Japanese: デイヴィット・レイティは同じ英題（TheDreamoftheFishermansWife）で絵を模倣した。
English: He has insisted on its actual title being "Dancing With Katsushika Hokusai."
Japanese: 彼は実際の絵の題名は“DancingWithKatsushikaHokusai“だったと主張している。
English: Masami TERAOKA included a picture called "Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven" depicting the woman and the octopuses in his 2001 collection, "Waves and Plaguest."
Japanese: 寺岡政美は彼の2001年の画集“WavesandPlaguest“の一枚に蛸と海女を描いた。
English: A parody image featuring Flying Spaghetti Monsterism was made by Niklas Jansson, an artist.
Japanese: 空飛ぶスパゲッティ・モンスター教をフィーチャーしたが芸術家により作られた。
English: A parody picture depicting the invasion of Martians, painted by John Pound, was also included in the comic magazine "Commies from Mars: The Red Planet."
Japanese: 漫画雑誌にはジョン・パウンドにより描かれた火星人の襲来に対するパロディーの絵がある。
English: Because of its sexually explicit content, it became the first NC-17-rated movie in the United States.
Japanese: 映画には性的な表現があり、アメリカ合衆国で最初の17歳未満お断りのレーティングとなった。
English: Makoto AIDA's works "The Giant Member Fuji Versus King Gidora" and "The member of the giant Ico Chan vs. King Gidora" are also among examples.
Japanese: 会田誠の「巨大フジ隊員vsキングギドラ」“TheGiantMemberFujiVersusKingGidora“と、｢地球防衛少女イコちゃんvsキングギドラ」“ThememberofthegiantIcoChanvs.KingGidora“。