Definitions
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- noun The
entryway to a Japanese house, wherestreet shoes are removed andhouseshoes put on before entering the house, and house shoes removed and street shoes put on before leaving the house
Etymologies
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Examples
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There may be a door in the genkan, but surely not a door to the genkan.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Haters gonna hate: Mori Ogai on translation 2010
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To translate “door to the zenbō” as “door to the genkan,” as I was urged, would be rather odd.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Haters gonna hate: Mori Ogai on translation 2010
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This is actually something like a corridor, people told me, or “a small sitting room by the genkan,” or the genkan itself.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Haters gonna hate: Mori Ogai on translation 2010
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And as for “a small sitting room by the genkan,” such phrasing is sheer self-gratification.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Haters gonna hate: Mori Ogai on translation 2010
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We entered through the genkan entrance vestibule and stepped up into the reception room.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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The genkan fronted directly onto a tatami room, or reception area.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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He comes to the door, is greeted at the genkan and admitted to the space, and plunges into these astonishingly untidy places with his camera crew.
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The genkan opened on a corridor that ran the entire length of the house, a long earthen passageway.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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He comes to the door, is greeted at the genkan and admitted to the space, and plunges into these astonishingly untidy places with his camera crew.
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The genkan was flanked by a wall of wooden cubbies.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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