LingakuFrequency rank: 10,121. – 10,153.
- infancy; childhood; tender age
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
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They attributed his bad manners to lack of training in childhood.
2. ようしょう幼少のとき時、ちち父がしんで死んで、そのおとうと弟が、じだい時代のすいせい衰勢と、じぶん自分のたいだ怠惰とから、すっかり、みのしろ身代をつぶしてしまったらしく、あとに後に、ひつぼく筆墨ぎょうしょうにん行商人になって、わたくし私のいえ家へ、よくきた来たが、くると、はは母にしかられて叱られて、よわっていた。
When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.