nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: It is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word Kasaya that means 'cloudy color.'
Japanese: 梵語で「混濁色」を意味するカシャーヤ（Kasaya）を音訳したもの。
English: In Buddhism, priests were prohibited from having any private possessions that could have value; clothing were no exception.
Japanese: 仏教では本来、出家僧侶は財産になるような私有物を持つことを禁じられており、衣服も例外ではなかった。
English: Therefore, a cloth to cover the body was made by collecting and sewing together rags that had lost their value and were thrown away, or something like using pieces of cloth for wiping filth (funzo - literally, wiping excrement).
Japanese: そのため、価値や使い道が無くなり捨てられたぼろ布、汚物を拭う（＝糞掃）くらいしか用の無くなった端布を拾い集め綴り合せて身を覆う布を作った。
English: In order to distinguish the monks from lay believers (wearing white cloth), the cloth was dyed again into ocher or bluish black using plants or the rust of metals.
Japanese: 布は在家（白い布をまとっていた）と区別するために草木や金属の錆を使って染め直され、黄土色や青黒色をしていた。
English: There are three types: Andae, which corresponds to working wear, uttaraso that corresponds to an everyday cloth, and sogyari that corresponds to a formal or visit cloth.
Japanese: 作業着にあたる安陀会（あんだえ）、普段着にあたる鬱多羅僧（うったらそう）、儀式・訪問着にあたる僧伽梨（そうぎゃり）の三枚がある。
English: Together with bowl that is used for eating and takuhatsu (a traditional form of begging, common to Buddhist monks in Japan), these are known as sanneippatsu and deemed necessary articles for a priest.
Japanese: これに食事や托鉢に使う応量器をあわせて、三衣一鉢（さんねいっぱつ）と呼び、僧侶の必需品とされた。
English: In accprdance with propagation of Buddhism to cold areas, underwear was used and, when it arrived in China, it had lost its original usage and become decorative, symbolizing the wearer as a priest.
Japanese: 仏教がより寒冷な地方に伝播するにつれて、下衣が着られるようになり、中国に伝わる頃には本来の用途を失って僧侶であることを表す装飾的な衣装となった。
English: After it was brought into Japan, cloths with various colors or baldachin were used and it became a symbol of the rank or the privilege of the monk in combination.
Japanese: 日本に伝わってからは、さらに様々な色や金襴の布地が用いられるようになり、その組み合わせによって僧侶の位階や特権を表すものになった。
English: In particular, until the Edo period, permission by the emperor was required to wear 'shie (purple robe for high-ranking priests)' or 'murasakikesa (purple kesa).'
Japanese: 特に江戸時代までは「紫衣（しえ）」、「紫袈裟」は天皇の勅許が必要であった。
English: On the other hand, because general priests used black clothing, they came to be called 'kokue (black clothing).'
Japanese: なお、一般の僧は黒い衣であったことから「黒衣」（こくえ）と称された。
English: Formerly, a kesa was worn to cover the whole body, but, at present, it is hung to reveal the right shoulder excluding special situations (hendan uken).
Japanese: 古くは両肩を含め全身を覆うように着用したが、現在では特別な場合を除き右肩を出すようにして掛ける（＝偏袒右肩（へんだんうけん））。
English: This is to show worship and feelings of love and veneration for Buddha in comparison with Nyorai (Tathagata) who wears a kesa to cover both shoulders (tsu ken).
Japanese: これは如来が両肩を覆って着用している（＝通肩（つうけん））のに対して、仏への崇拝と畏敬の念を表すためである。
English: While there are a lot of variations of shape depending on the religious sect or usage, they still share a common method of sewing together small pieces of cloth.
Japanese: 宗派や用途によって形状に多くのバリエーションがあるが、小さく裁断した布を縫い合わせて作られる基本的な縫製法は共通している。
English: A strip of vertically joined small pieces of cloth is called jo (strip) and kesa is made by joining multiple jo horizontally.
Japanese: 小さな布を縦に繋いだものを条（じょう）と呼び、これを横に何条か縫い合わせて作られる。
English: The number of jo is usually five, seven or nine; the more jo is used, the more valuable the kesa is deemed.
Japanese: 条の数は一般には五条、七条（しちじょう）、九条（くじょう）の三種類であり、条数の多い方が尊重される。
English: Because pieces of cloth sewn together look like paddy fields, it is sometimes called Fukudenne (lucky paddy field clothing).
Japanese: 縫い合わされた布が水田のように見えることから、袈裟を福田衣と呼ぶことがある。
English: According to one view, it originated from the fact that Hashinoku-o (King Pasenadi) of Sravasti, who became a follower of Shakyamuni, mistakenly worshipped Brahmanism by mistaking a disciple of the Brahmanism for that of the Buddha.
Japanese: 一説には、釈迦に帰依した舎衛国の波斯匿王が仏弟子とバラモン教を見まちがえて礼拝したとされる。
English: As a result, he asked that a rule be made to govern clothing, so Shakyamuni said to Ananda beside him, pointing the paddy fields, 'How about making it like that.'
Japanese: 区別できるよう衣装の定めを設けるよう願った際、釈迦が傍らの阿難に水田を指差して「あのようにすればよいだろう」と言われたことに由来するという。
English: In the Zen sect, kesa is positive proof of shiho (the dharma founded by Shakyamuni is inherited by a disciple from a priest master).
Japanese: 禅宗では袈裟は嗣法（釈迦以来の仏法が師匠から弟子に正しく伝えられること）の重要な証である。
English: When the priest master judges that training of the disciple has been successfully completed, he teaches the disciple the core of the dharma, and gives the disciple kesa and Jihatsu (nesting set of bowls with which a priest in training eat) that were inherited from the founder of the sect, in proof of the completion.
Japanese: 師匠は弟子の修行が十分に達成されたと判断した時、仏法の核心を伝授し、その証として祖師伝来の袈裟と持鉢を与える。
English: In some sects, a simplified-type kesa called wagesa is used by laypersons when taking part in a Buddhist mass.
Japanese: 一部の宗派では輪袈裟という、簡易型の袈裟を僧侶の他、在家信徒も法会参列時に使用する。
English: It is derived from the fact that the person in question was born with the umbilical cord coiled around his neck in his mothers womb and looks like a person wearing wagesa.
Japanese: それは本人の誕生時、胎内で臍帯が首に絡まって生まれてきた状態が、袈裟を着ているように見えることに由来する。
English: This name is given as an incantation to ensure the growth of a newborn.
Japanese: 無事生まれてきた子の成長のための呪い事（まじないごと）として、この名がつけられる。
English: According to Wamyo-ruijusho (a Japanese encyclopedia) edited in the middle of the Heian period, yukatabira was a kind of inner cloth worn for bathing.
Japanese: 湯帷子は、平安中期に成立した倭名類聚抄(わみょうるいじゅしょう)によると、内衣布で沐浴するための衣とされている。
English: In those days, while a person occasionally took a bath together with others, he or she is assumed to have worn the cloth in a bath to wipe off the sweat and also to hide his naked body.
Japanese: この時代、複数の人と入浴する機会があったため、汗取りと裸を隠す目的で使用されたものと思われる。
English: Since around the Azuchi-Momoyama period, the cloth became widely worn to absorb sweat off the skin after a bath.
Japanese: 安土桃山時代頃から、湯上りに着て肌の水分を吸い取らせる目的でひろく用いられるようになった。
English: For this reason, yukata-making was often a subject of home economics lesson at primary schools until sometime in the postwar period.
Japanese: このため戦後のある時期まで家庭(教科)の授業では浴衣を縫うことが多かった。
English: Under normal circumstances, the yukata is supposed to be worn direct to the skin, but nowadays many people put on underwear which is, however, no more than an underslip for kimono or hadajuban (an undershirt with tie strings to be worn beneath the kimono) underneath the yukata.
Japanese: 着用の場合には、本来は素肌の上に直接着るものとされており、近年では下着を着用することが多くなったが、それでも和装用スリップや肌襦袢程度である。
English: Because of its thin fabric and its open, airy construction, the yukata is mostly worn in summer season, after a bath or as nighttime clothing.
Japanese: 生地が薄く、開放的で風通しがよいことから、もっぱら夏場や湯上り、あるいは寝巻きとしての用途が主である。
English: It's a conservative style for men to wear sanjaku-obi (a short waistband) and for women to wear hanhaba-obi (a half-width waistband), but heko-obi (an non-dress belt) may also be put on because it was once popularly worn after the Meiji period.
Japanese: また、男子は三尺帯、女子は半幅帯で着るのが古風であるが、明治以降兵児帯（へこおび）が流行したこともあって、これを用いることもある。
English: Kaku-obi was originally regarded as unsuitable for yukata, but it seems this idea is receding.
Japanese: 角帯は元来浴衣には合わせないものとされていたが、この意識は薄れつつあるように見受けられる。
English: Although yukata and wooden clogs are sold in one set, it is possible, of course, to select any clogs with thongs of your favorite color and design.
Japanese: 浴衣と下駄はセットでも販売されているが、もちろん下駄は好みのデザイン・鼻緒でよい。
English: Because the yukata has been the utmost casual wear from the beginning and it's regarded as impolite if one wears yukata to meet others, one can only wear a yukata to the most casual places.
Japanese: 元来が略装の最たるものであるから、浴衣で出かけられるのは気取らない場所にかぎり、この格好で人と会うのは失礼とされる。
English: Today, however, many people aren't very conscious of such yukata-related customs, partly because the kimono style itself is becoming rare.
Japanese: ただし現在では和装そのものが稀になりつつあることもあり、こうしたしきたりをあまり感じない人も多い。
English: Also, because there are fewer opportunities to wear wafuku on a regular basis except for summer festivals and other events where one would intentionally wear yukata, it's no longer being considered even as informal wear largely by young women with comparatively frequent chances to wear yukata, among others.
Japanese: むしろ、夏の祭りなどの行事に浴衣をわざわざ着て行く以外に、習慣として和服を着る機会が少なくなっている現在、浴衣の着る機会の多い若い女性を中心に、浴衣は略装であるという感覚も失われつつある。
English: In the modern life in Japan, people wear yukata primarily for such occasions as fireworks, temple festivals, Bon festival dances and other summer events.
Japanese: 現代の日本の生活で浴衣が用いられるのは、主に花火・縁日・盆踊りなどの夏の行事である。
English: Some hot-spring resort areas are making their own development plans on the premise of wearing yukata and geta, which they acknowledge as an important element in creating a "hot springs" atmosphere.
Japanese: また温泉街では浴衣を着て下駄を履くのが雰囲気を出すのに重要として、浴衣着用を前提としたまちづくりをしてあるところもある。
English: The bright colors of yukata and pattering sounds of geta are most liked, as they produce a gorgeous atmosphere of festivals and hot springs, under which acknowledgment people are increasing their involvement in their towns' development plans on the premise of wearing yukata and geta.
Japanese: 浴衣は色鮮やかで、下駄も音が好まれるため、祭り、温泉とも華やかな雰囲気になるとして、浴衣・下駄着用前提の取り組みは増えつつある。
English: Also increasing are cases where the employees of department stores and other commercial establishments, tourism and entertainment services are beginning to wear yukata as a uniform for the summer season.
Japanese: デパートや商業施設、観光関係やサービス業の従業員など夏の制服として着用する例も多くなった。
English: Lately, in order to brighten hot-spring areas and festivals, people are encouraged to wear yukata without constraint.
Japanese: 最近では、温泉街や祭りなどを鮮やかにするため、みんなで気軽に浴衣姿になってもらおうと努力している。
English: For this purpose, some ryokan (Japanese-style hotels) are lending or presenting yukata and geta to their guests, and some tourist facilities are lending them out too.
Japanese: そのため、旅館で宿泊客に浴衣と下駄を貸し出したりプレゼントする、観光施設で浴衣を貸し出すところも出ている。
English: Therefore, the yukata has become popular as a kind of resort wear in hot-spring areas.
Japanese: このように、浴衣は人気があり、浴衣が温泉地の一種のリゾートウェアとなった。
English: Additionally, many ryokan and hotels prepare yukata for their guests as night clothing, which is a unique custom in Japan.
Japanese: また日本独特の風習として、旅館やホテルに寝巻きとして客用の浴衣が用意してある場合が多い。
English: Originally, the yukata was made principally of indigo-dyed plain cotton cloth in which undyed patterns were left and daring patterns were laid on the yukata (see the picture on the right.)
Japanese: 浴衣はもともと白地の木綿をアイ(植物)で染抜くのが原則で、柄も大胆なものが多かった（右図参照）。
English: But in recent years they have diversified into various gorgeous colors and designs because, in many cases, yukata offers the only chance to wear traditional Japanese clothing.
Japanese: 近年では和服を着る唯一の機会が浴衣ということも多くなり、華やかな色合いと柄のものなど多様化してきている。
English: Many of the yukata fabrics have also changed from cotton, as of original yukata, to those containing hemp and polyester.
Japanese: 生地も、浴衣本来の木綿ではなく、麻(繊維)を混ぜたものやポリエステルなどを用いたものも多い。
English: The diversification of yukata has made the boundary between yukata and other clothing less distinct.
Japanese: 浴衣の多様化によって、かつては一目瞭然であった浴衣以外の着物との境界は極めて曖昧になっている。
English: Because the yukata is comparatively inexpensive among the various kinds of Japanese clothing, kabuki players used to present to their patrons specially ordered rolls of dyed cloth for yukata, although in recent years that custom has become less frequently employed.
Japanese: 和服のなかでは比較的安価であることから、別誂えの反物を染めて歌舞伎役者などが贔屓への配りものとすることも多かったが、最近ではこうした風習も徐々に少なくなりつつある。
English: In the world of sumo (Japanese-style wrestling), there remain by a narrow margin such customs as ranking wrestlers present specially ordered cloth for yukata, imprinted with their names, to their patrons and other sumo stables.
Japanese: 角界にはまだかろうじて、関取が自分の名前の入った浴衣生地を贔屓筋や他の相撲部屋に贈るという風習が残っている。
English: Of course, some of the wrestlers may specially order their original yukata using cloth in their favorite patterns.
Japanese: もちろん、自分の気に入った柄で、オリジナルな浴衣を仕立てる力士もある。
English: By the way, there is a regulation that no wrestler at work, whether a ranking wrestler or not, may go out without yukata, which is formal attire for sumo wrestlers.
Japanese: ちなみに関取か否かを問わず、現役力士は浴衣が正装であり、浴衣を着ずに外出してはならない規定がある。
English: Nippon Yukata Rengokai (literally, the Joint Association of the Japanese Yukata Industry) instituted the day of yukata on July 7 after the custom of the Tanabata Star Festival (the festival of weavers) and Shokujo-sai (the festival for female weavers).
Japanese: 乞巧奠（きっこうてん）の慣習と織女祭に因み、日本ゆかた連合会により7月7日がゆかたの日と制定されている。
English: Because the yukata is easier to wear than other kimono clothing, in addition to being inexpensive, it enjoys high popularity among foreigners as an ethnic costume and a reasonable souvenir or an article for mail order.
Japanese: 着付けも普通の和服に比べて比較的安易で、かつ安価であることから、民族衣装として、手頃なお土産物や通販などで外国人にも人気がある。
English: "Habutae" (habutae silk in English) is a kind of plain woven cloth with warp and weft yarns alternately interwoven.
Japanese: 羽二重（はぶたえ、英：habutaesilk）は、平織りと呼ばれる経糸（たていと）と緯糸（よこいと）を交互に交差させる織り方で織られた織物の一種。
English: While an ordinary plain weave uses warp and weft yarns of the same thickness, habutae is woven using two thinner warp yarns for each one weft yarn so that its texture becomes soft, light and with silky glaze.
Japanese: 通常の平織りが緯糸と同じ太さの経糸1本で織るのに対し、羽二重は経糸を細い2本にして織るため、やわらかく軽く光沢のある布となる。
English: Because of its whiteness with more than good feeling, habutae is used as the highest class liners for wafuku (Japanese kimono garment) and even as the fabric for formal dresses.
Japanese: 白く風合いがとてもよいことから、和服の裏地として最高級であり、礼装にも用いられる。
English: Habutae represents all Japanese silk fabrics, as being said "the taste of silk fabric begins with habutae and ends with it."
Japanese: 日本を代表する絹織物であり『絹のよさは羽二重に始まり羽二重に終わる』といわれる。
English: Habutae is a traditional Japanese woven cloth, which is said to have originated in the early-modern times.
Japanese: 羽二重は日本では近世から始められたと伝わっている伝統的な織物である。
English: From around 1877, research to improve looms was promoted in Kyoto and in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture.
Japanese: 明治10年頃から京都や群馬県桐生市などで機織り機の研究が進められた。
English: In around 1887, production of habutae began in Kawamata-cho in Fukushima Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture and others.
Japanese: 明治20年頃には福島県川俣町、石川県、福井県などで生産されるようになった。
English: "Chirimen" (crepe in French) is a kind of plain woven silk cloth.
Japanese: ちりめん（縮緬、クレープ織り、仏：crêpe）は、絹を平織りにして作った織物。
English: It is made of alternately interwoven warp and weft yarns, the former being little twisted and the latter hard twisted.
Japanese: 縦糸にはほとんど撚りのない糸を使い、横糸に強い撚りをかけた糸を使う。
English: Weft yarns are twisted right-handed or left-handed each of which is alternately inwoven.
Japanese: 横糸は右より（右回りにねじる）と左より（左回りにねじる）の糸を交互に織ったものである。
English: Its major production areas are the Tango region in Kyoto Prefecture where Tango Chirimen R is produced and Nagahama City in Shiga Prefecture where Hama Chirimen is produced.
Japanese: 主な産地は京都府丹後地方の丹後ちりめんR、滋賀県長浜市の浜ちりめんである。
English: At present, in the Tango region of Kyoto Prefecture, a new type of Tango Chirimen R is being turned out, using cotton and synthetic yarns instead of silk yarns as material yarns.
Japanese: 現在、京都府丹後地方では原料の糸を絹から綿・化合繊に変えた丹後ちりめんRも織られている。
English: Since chirimen fabrics made of silk and rayon will shrink if dipped in water, they must avoid any wet condition.
Japanese: 絹・レーヨンで織られたちりめんは、水に付けると縮むので水分を避けること。
English: In the TV drama Mito-komon of Panasonic Drama Theater, its central character, Mitsukuni TOKUGAWA, identifies himself as 'Mitsuemon, a chirimen dealer in Echigo Province.'
Japanese: テレビ水戸黄門(パナソニックドラマシアター)にて主人公徳川光圀は作中にて「越後国の縮緬問屋の光右衛門」と名乗っている。
English: A whole sea bream is grilled as it uncut and served on top of partially cooked rice that is flavored with soy sauce and salt.
Japanese: 一尾丸ごと焼いた鯛を、醤油や塩で味付けした半炊き状態の炊き込みご飯の上に載せる。
English: Tai sashimi (raw sea bream) on top of rice is eaten with a special sauce, mixed with raw egg and spices such as sesames and onions.
Japanese: 鯛の刺身を飯に載せ、特製のタレと生卵、ゴマやネギなどの薬味を混ぜたものをかけて食べるもの。
English: According to Akira DOINAKA, a native researcher, Tai Meshi in the Nanyo area when first introduced has remained the same on and after 1985.
Japanese: 郷土研究家の土井中照によると、南予地方の鯛めしが、今日の姿で紹介されるようになったのは昭和60年代以降のこと。
English: Before that, 'Hyuga meshi' in which aji (Japanese horse mackerel) is used was popular, besides sea bream.
Japanese: それ以前は素材に鯛のほか鯵などが用いられることもある「ひゅうが飯」であったという。
English: Doinaka points out that the description of 'Tai Meshi (Hyuga Meshi)' appeared on and after 1985.
Japanese: 昭和60年代以降、「鯛めし（ひゅうがめし）」の表記がみられる様になったと指摘している。
English: Doinaka suggested that this has resulted from a tourism policy to introduce a speciality of the Nanyo area to tourists.
Japanese: 土井中は、南予地方の名物料理をつくりたいという観光政策が影響しているのではないかとみている。
English: Tai Meshi, however, has a long history and its origin allegedly dates back to the Iyo navy of FUJIWARA no Sumitomo who lived in the Heian period.
Japanese: ただしその歴史は古く一説には平安時代、藤原純友の伊予水軍とも言われる。
English: In the Uwajima area, it was normally known just as 'Tai Meshi.'
Japanese: また宇和島周辺では昭和30年代には日常的に「鯛めし」としか呼ばれていなかった。
English: Thus it is a fact that the name was already used in the early 1960s in the area.
Japanese: 当地では既に昭和30年代後半の時点では使用されている呼称であることは事実である。
English: In 2007, with 'Uwajima' added to the beginning of the name of the area, 'Uwajima Tai Meshi' was selected as one of 'the hundred best local dishes' organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Japanese: 2007年（平成19年）、「宇和島」と地名を冠し、「宇和島鯛めし」として農林水産省の「郷土料理百選」に選ばれた。
English: Tai meshi, in the form of ekiben, is available at the Imabari Station and Odawara Station as Taimeshi bento and at the Shizuoka Station as Taimeshi.
Japanese: 駅弁としては今治駅、小田原駅の鯛飯弁当、静岡駅の鯛飯が販売されている。
English: One of the ekibens, using sea bream, 'Seto no Oshizushi' (pressed sushi in Seto), won the first prize in the National Ekiben contest featured on the Saturday Edition of Nippon Keizai Shimbun in May 2006.
Japanese: 鯛を使った駅弁の一つ、今治の「瀬戸の押寿司」は2006年5月の日本経済新聞土曜版の駅弁特集で全国一位に輝いた。
English: The origin of the word is believed to be "餡衣餅"(reads ankoromomochi) as bean jam (餡: reads an) is like a clothe (衣: reads koromo) to rice cake (餅: reads mochi), which in time became Ankoromochi.
Japanese: 餡が餅の衣になっていることから「餡衣餅（あんころももち）」と呼ばれ、それが「あんころ餅」になったという説がある。
English: Sometimes Ankoromochi is regarded in the same light as Botamochi (rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame), but can normally be differentiated as its contents is rice cake.
Japanese: ぼたもちと同一視されることもあるが、中身が完全な餅であるという点でそれらとは区別されていることが多い。
English: It is a custom in Kinki and Hokuriku regions (especially in Kyoto City and Kanazawa City) to eat Ankoromochi on the first day of "Doyo of summer" (midsummer), and Ankoromochi is also called Doyomochi.
Japanese: 近畿地方や北陸地方（特に京都市・金沢市）を中心に夏の土用の入りの日にあんころ餅を食べる風習があり、別名「土用餅（どようもち）」と呼ばれる。
English: The origin of the custom is not known, but Doyomochi is eaten for vitality and to withstand the hot summer days, which is a similar custom to eating eel.
Japanese: 発祥は定かではないが、ウナギを食べるのと同様に、土用餅を食べて精を付けて夏の暑さを乗り切るためとされている。
English: Ankoromochi is said to have made into bite-size pieces in the Edo period for tired travellers to eat it with ease.
Japanese: 江戸時代に、疲れた旅人が食べやすい様に一口サイズになったともいわれている。
English: In Yose (storyteller theater), a theatrical entertainment is performed last often as an alternative to rakugo (comic story telling) or kodan storytelling when the last performer does neither of them.
Japanese: 寄席で、トリを落語・講談が取らない場合、しばしばその代りに行われた演芸。
English: It was played by two or more performers, and a brief story (comic) or a riddle was performed in response to a given topic.
Japanese: 複数人でおこなわれ、お題をうけて小咄やなぞ掛けなどを行うことが多い。
English: It was originally performed last as a bonus for the audience in the theater and was a sideshow act in which more than one performer came on the stage again after all the other performances, and competed with each other on their performance based on a topic given by the audience.
Japanese: 元来は、寄席において観客へのサービスとして行われていたもので、最後の演目として複数の出演者が再び登場し、観客から題目をもらって互いに芸を競い合う余興であった。
English: This is relevant for encores in concerts, and phrases such as 'We would like to ask you the audience how you liked the show,' which is still often used on the stage in present theatrical entertainment, may have originated from the concept of the bonus.
Japanese: これはコンサートなどにおけるアンコールに相当し、現在の演芸の舞台でもよく耳にする「お客様方のご機嫌を伺いたいと思います」というフレーズは、このサービスという観念に由来するものと思われる。
English: The name Ogiri is derived from a word 'ogiri' or 'okiri' according to the Chinese characters and means the last item of the show in classical Japanese popular performing arts including Noh (traditional masked dance-drama), Joruri (ballad drama), and Kabuki.
Japanese: 大喜利という名は能・浄瑠璃・歌舞伎といった古典芸能の舞台で、最後の演目を意味する言葉として使われる「大切り」に由来する。
English: In these days, the word 'Ogiri' is associated with the item 'Ogiri' in "Shoten" (a TV entertainment program that presents shows such as rakugo stories or manzai, and comic dialogues) that is broadcasted by Nippon Television Network Corporation.
Japanese: 現在「大喜利」といえば、テレビ番組『笑点』（日本テレビ放送網）のコーナーの「大喜利(笑点)」がイメージされるだろう。
English: Also, an item called 'the Ogiri style' was derived from that program and has been popular among many variety programs and Owarai (comedians show) events where comedians, entertainers, and Rakugo story tellers give comical responses to various topics they had prepared in advance and compete with each other on their sense of Owarai.
Japanese: またここから派生して、多くのバラエティ番組やお笑いイベントなどでは「大喜利形式」と称し、お笑い芸人やタレント、落語家達が用意された様々なお題に対して、面白い答えを出し合い、互いのお笑いセンスを競っている。
English: Based on the program called Shoten, the idea of giving one more zabuton (traditional Japanese cushions used to sit on the floor) to a performer that gives a good comical response and the use of a flip chart and prop, etc., have become common.
Japanese: 良い答えを出した人に座布団が与えられるシステムやフリップや小道具等の使用なども「笑点」によって一般的になった形式である。
English: Stories in which a question about C, which is neither A nor B, is made; for example, 'This seems like such and such but is not such and such, and it seems like such and such but is not such and such; now I will ask what it is, and the answer is thus and thus.'
Japanese: 「○○のようで○○でない、△△のようで△△でない、それは何かと尋ねれば、□□、□□」のように、AでもなくBでもないCを問うもの。
English: That is what it is called in Kamigata (the Kyoto-Osaka region) because the phrase "Benben," an onomatopoetic expression of Gidayu shamisen (shamisen used for Gidayu when reciting dramatic narratives), is uttered as an interjection.
Japanese: 合いの手として、「ベンベン」（義太夫の三味線の音色に由来）と入れることから、上方ではこの名がある。
English: Furikake consists of powdered, particulate or soboro-like (crumbled and seasoned meat, fish, egg) condiments sprinkled mainly on rice for seasoning.
Japanese: ふりかけとは、主にご飯用の粉末状、粒子状、あるいはそぼろ状の調味料的おかずのこと。
English: It is not cooked just before eating as it is normally in the pre-cooked form and there are various kinds of commercialized products already on the market.
Japanese: 食事に際して調理するのではなく、作り置きの常備菜的なものを指すことが多く、商品化された市販品の種類も豊富である。
English: The name was based on the fact that it is sprinkled on top of rice, therefore 'gomashio' (sesame and salt) used for sekihan (steamed rice with red beans) and 'yukari' which is dried, and cut beefsteak plant that was pickled with plums, are also included in furikake.
Japanese: ご飯にふりかけて食べるのが名前の由来である事から、赤飯などで使う「ゴマ塩」や、梅干しを漬けた後のシソを乾燥させて細かくしたもの「ゆかり(ふりかけ)」なども、ふりかけの仲間に入る。
English: Other products made by almost the same process of manufacture as furikake are 'ochazuke no moto' (rice with green tea mix) on which green tea is poured after it is sprinkled on top of rice, and 'onigiri no moto' (rice ball mix) that consists of rice sprinkled with furikake that is then mixed and made into a ball.
Japanese: 他にも、ふりかけた後にお茶をかける「お茶漬けの素」や、ふりかけた後ご飯に混ぜ込んで使用する「おにぎりの素」などに、ふりかけとほぼ同じ製法のものがある。
English: The general process of making furikake is to crush the ingredients, add seasoning and dry them completely, then mix them with other ingredients to make it flaky.
Japanese: 一般的なふりかけの製法は、原料を粉砕し調味料で味付けしたあと完全乾燥し、他の具などを混ぜ合わせフレーク状に仕上げる。
English: Most of the products contain laver seaweed and sesame added to the main ingredients, and recently freeze-dried ingredients are used because of the rich taste.
Japanese: ほとんどの商品では、味の中心となる具に海苔とゴマが加えられており、最近では風味が豊かなことからフリーズドライの原料を用いることもある。
English: Also there is a type called nama (fresh) furikake, which is made by simply crumbling all the ingredients together, add seasoning and mix..
Japanese: また、すべての原料を細かくほぐし、味付けして混ぜ合わせただけのものもあり、これは生ふりかけと呼ばれている。
English: In most types of nama furikake, sea products are used such as dried whitebait, seaweed, kelp, and fish soboro.
Japanese: 生ふりかけでは、ちりめんじゃこ・ワカメ・コンブ・魚のそぼろなど海産物を使用している割合が高い。