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瀬戸物 (せともの, setomono) is a JLPT N2 vocabulary word meaning “earthenware,crockery,china”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
瀬戸物のお 茶碗を 買いました
I bought some ceramic bowls.
その店は瀬戸物を使っている。
The store carries earthenware.
その 店は 瀬戸物を 使っている。
The store carries earthenware.
階下の料理女が、瀬戸物の破片の散らばった階段を見上げて、鼻白んでいた。
The maid-servant downstairs looked up the staircase and made a mocking face at the crockery disaster.1869
源空寺（げんくうじ）は京都府京都市伏見区瀬戸物町にある、浄土宗の寺院である。
Genku-ji Temple is a Jodo (Pure Land) sect temple located Setomono-cho, Fushimi Ward of the city (and prefecture) of Kyoto.
瀬戸物の寄せ集めのような妖怪が、瀬戸物の甲冑を身に着けたような姿で描かれている。
A specter which looks like an assortment of setomono (ceramics which were originally made in the regions of Seto, Aichi Prefecture) is depicted as wearing an armor made up of setomono.
年、放免後、日本橋瀬戸物町に英学指南所を開くが「政府転覆のため人を集めているのでは」と疑われ一時捕縛される。
In 1869, after released, he established an English school in Setomono-cho, Nihonbashi; however, he was suspected that 'he gathers people to plot for the downfall of the government' and arrested for a while.
みんな、かれについての評価に自分の評判をかけるのは、育児所に卵の殻のような瀬戸物を置くも同然だということをなぜか知っていた。
they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
レギュラー版は「高崎だるま」に似たプラスチック容器を用いているが、古いだるま弁当を再現した「復刻だるま弁当」は瀬戸物の眼光鋭い達磨の表情を描いた容器となっており、全く別の造形である。
There are two totally different types of containers of Daruma Bento; the plastic containers, regular version, similar to a 'Takasaki Daruma doll' in shape and the containers made of china on which Daruma face with sharp eyes are depicted, called 'revived Daruma bento,' reproducing old Daruma bento.
実際に何らかの伝承を伴う妖怪ではなく、『三国志』の登場人物である曹操と関羽の逸話をもとに、関羽をイメージした創作物として描かれたものといわれており、瀬戸物と陶磁器の2種の陶磁器の激しい勢力争いを描いたものとの説もある。
It is not a specter that actually has a legend of some sort, but it is said to be depicted as a creation imaging Guan Yu, based on the analects of Cao Cao and Guan Yu who were the characters from "Sanguo Zhi" (History of the Three Kingdoms in China), and there is also a theory that it was depicting a struggle for power between two types of ceramics, setomono and chinaware.