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    3. 川柳

    川柳

    川せん柳りゅう

    senryū

    KMT7News #13+1NounCulture & TraditionsLiteratureKanji Vocab12 strokes

    せんりゅう

    Noun

    1.
    senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem

    Stroke 0 / 12

    Speed1.0x

    彼かれは面おも白しろい川せん柳りゅうを詠よんだ。

    He composed an interesting senryu.

    KMT6LiteratureCulture & Traditions
    川せん柳りゅうは五ご七しち五ごの形けい式しきで、日にち常じょうの出で来き事ごとをユーモラスに表ひょう現げんする。

    Senryu expresses everyday events humorously in a 5-7-5 syllable form.

    KMT7LiteratureCulture & Traditions
    日に本ほんの会かい社しゃでは、社しゃ員いんが作つくった川せん柳りゅうを募ぼ集しゅうするイベントがある。

    In Japanese companies, there are events that solicit senryu created by employees.

    KMT7Culture & TraditionsWork & Career
    彼かれは川せん柳りゅうのコンテストで最さい優ゆう秀しゅう賞しょうを受じゅ賞しょうした。

    He won the grand prize in the senryu contest.

    KMT7LiteratureEducation
    現げん代だいの川せん柳りゅうは、社しゃ会かい風ふう刺しや時じ事じネタを題だい材ざいにすることも多 い。

    Modern senryu often takes social satire and current events as its themes.

    KMT8LiteratureCulture & TraditionsPolitics & Law

    Kanji that make up this word

    川
    かわ…(4)
    stream・river・river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
    柳
    やなぎ…(7)
    willow
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