03.Jan.2010 osechiryouri

お節料理 [おせちりょうり] – meal served during the New Year’s holiday

節 [セツ・セチ・ふし] – seasonal (also means various other things such as stanza, knuckle, and node)

料 [リョウ] – material; ingredient

理 [リ・ことわり] – arrangement; truth; reason

Put 料 and 理 together, and you get “cuisine.”

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