有り様 (arisama)
state, condition, circumstances, the way things are or should be, truth
- JLPT N1
- Pitch 2
Meaning
有様 (ありさま, arisama) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “state, condition, circumstances, the way things are or should be, truth”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
事故の 現場はひどい 有り様でした
The accident scene was awful.
彼女は 哀れを 誘う 有様だった。
She was in a piteous state.
しかし突然「有り様に申さぬか」という大声が聞こえてきたという。
However, all of a sudden they heard someone shouting 'tell us.'
その有り様が後人の琴線に触れ、講談などによる潤色の素地となった。
Such attitude moved the hearts of future generations, which constituted the foundation of embellishment through stories and the like.
蘇我氏の勢いはますます盛んになり、豪族たちは朝廷に出仕せず、もっぱら蘇我家に出仕する有り様となった。
Since the Soga clan gained even more power, members of powerful clans stopped attending to the Imperial Court, but instead regularly visited the residence of the Soga family to serve them.
何らかの意図で藤原氏との政争に敗れても、優美であったという紀氏の有り様を美しく描いているとも考えられる。
This can be taken as the aesthetic rendering of the clan who remained graceful even though, for some reason, they failed to defeat the Fujiwara clan in their political strife.
当時の高野山には、僧侶は食べる手段と割り切った信心の薄い下僧と、権力に眼を眩ませる上僧が蠢く有り様であった。
In Koya-san Mountain at that time, there were many lower rank priests who were not very religious and thought that being a priest was a tool to live and higher rank priests who were blinded with power.『
めぐり』の著者は道中の風物について詳しく行き届いた記述を残しており、沿道の事物の有り様をあざやかに浮かび上がらせている。
The writer of "Meguri" described the details of various things that he saw during his journey, and gives us vivid descriptions of the roads.
難民は実に惨めな有り様だ. The refugees are in a wretched condition.寄席にまで出演して稼がねばならない有り様であった。
They even had to perform at yose (storytelling theaters) in order to make money.
事故の現場はさんたんたる有り様で, どこから後片付けに手をつけてよいかわからなかった. The scene of the accident was in such a mess that they did not know where to begin clearing up.笠懸には的の有り様、行われる目的、様式の違いにより数種類ある。
There are various styles of Kasagake archery which differ depending upon the type of target and, aim of the event.