お寺てらの黒くろい靴くつ






Featured Kanji
(おおきい・タイ・ダイ)
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Vocabulary

  • — temple
  • — black
  • — shoes
  • — Kyoto
  • — old
  • — I; me
  • — to take off (clothes/shoes)
  • — garden
  • — to see; to look
  • — to take; to get
  • — to go
  • — but
  • — there is not; do not have (polite negative)
  • — important; precious
  • — to lose
  • — to think
  • — person
  • — excuse me; sorry
  • — where
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — next to; neighbor
  • — box
  • — inside; middle
  • — to exist (inanimate); to be; to have

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜てから (after doing) attaches to the て-form and means ‘after doing X’: the action before it is completed first, and the main clause follows. (“After looking at the garden, I went to get my shoes.”)

English

Black Shoes at the Temple

At an old temple in Kyoto, I took off my black shoes.
After looking at the garden, I went to get my shoes.
But, my shoes were not there.
I thought I lost my important shoes.
I asked the temple person, “Excuse me, where are my shoes?”
My shoes were inside the next box.