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文様：pattern
鶴：crane
よろい： armour
地味色：subduded colour
お茶の茶碗：tea cup
急須：tea pot
お猪口：sake cup
徳利：sake flask
・・焼：ware
陶器：pottery
不均衡：lopsided
ろくろ：wheel
軸薬：glaze
く：grind
注ぐ pour
農園：plantation
世界遺産：world heritage
天守：donjon
要塞：fortress
軍勢:troop
城下町：castle town
料理：cuisin
供え物：offering
儀式：rite
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Meanwhile a quiet revolution is taking place among younger women. NAOKO ANZAI, a active career women who had dated Japanese men in the past , says she can't imagine typing the knot with one because their way of life is boring and uncreative. I didn't want to be fitted into a mold. says the 35-year-old ANZAI. who recently married a European. More women, in fact , are choosing to get withed with a foreigner. The number of Japaneses females marring a none -Japanese steadily rose to 7477 in 1998 from 5600 in 1990 small number but indicative of the greater options women have . And some women are just opting to wait. Until quite recently , unmarried women in their late 20s were dismissed as "unsold Christmas cake" whose market value plummets after the holidays. But now marry more hold off getting married until well int their 30s. Their reason? salary men are no longer the prize they once were, now that lifetime employment, is a thing of the past. Besides, many more women are capable of earning a living . In the past , women dedicated themselves to the family, while men concentrated on their work and society thrived says ANZAI. This structure is now beginning to crumble "Another sign of change in Japan
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The rising divorce rate reveals the dark side of Japan's boom years. when men toiled and partied long hours. while women submissively held the fort. The wives are saying : we don't want to take care of the husband til the end of our lives , says YOKO TAJIMA , professor of women's studies at HOSEI University in TOKYO. They finally wan to live as they want. Common these days are TEINEN-RIKON or retirement-age divorces where the women divorces her husband when he quits his company usually at 60 and often with a handsome bonus. FUMIKO KANAZUMI a TOKYO attorney, says that increasingly women are winning nearly 50% of the family assets when getting a divorce. And judges are favoring divorce filings from women who claim their husbands never did anything to make the marriage work.
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KIKUKO OTAKE,52,describes her recently ended. marriage as typical for one thing, whenever she sought her former husband's opinion on their children's education, he would say he could not be bothered, because he was busy reading the news paper or watching television. We were a typical couple where communications was absent. says OTAKE. NO too long ago, OTAKE would probably have suffered in silence. But now divorce in an potion that's become acceptable in Japan. and OTAKE took it: She and her husband split up after 25 years of marriage. Japanese salary men are struggling in their work place. dogged by restricting and salary cuts . But they face a domestic crisis as well. As women rethink their relationships with their hidebound husbands leading this trend are couples varied for 20 years or longer. Last year , some 4000 cases of divorce for this long-married group were reported. double the number in 1990.
