Meaning
銭湯 (せんとう, sentou) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “public bath, bathhouse”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
銭湯は昔より少なくなったわね。
We have fewer public bathhouses today compared to the past.
私はよく銭湯に行きます。
I often go to public baths.
私は銭湯に行ってきました。
I went to a bath house.
主に銭湯の煙突掃除を行う。
Chimney cleaner is mainly engaged in cleaning the chimneys of public bath houses.
私は家族と銭湯に行ってきました。
I went to a bath-house with my family.
江戸町内の庶民は銭湯で入浴していた。
Those days, the Edo citizens bathed in public baths.
平安時代末、京に現在でいう銭湯のようなものが現れた。
At the end of the Heian period, a kind of sento (recognizable in the present day) appeared in Kyoto.
銭湯(せんとう)は料金を支払って入浴できるようにした施設。
A sento (public bathhouses) is a facility that offers fee-based bathing.
「銭湯」と聞くと富士山の壁絵を思い浮かべる人は少なくはないと思われる。
Upon hearing the word 'sento,' many people recall a painted mural of Mt. Fuji.
その結果、これに倣う銭湯が東京や東日本を中心に続出し、銭湯といえばペンキ絵という観念を生じるに至った。
Subsequently there appeared a succession of sento, mainly in Tokyo and eastern Japan, and this generated the concept that the word 'sento' made people imagine the painted art.
なお、明治以前には、江戸では「銭湯」「湯屋(ゆうや)」と呼び、上方では「風呂屋」と呼ぶのが一般的であった。
Before the Meiji period, public bathhouses were generally called 'sento' or 'yuya' in Edo and were called 'furoya' in Kamigata (the area of Kyoto and Osaka).