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JLPT N1News, publicity

を皮かわ切きりに(して)starting with; kicking off with

It names the first of a series: a tour opens in one city and goes on to the next, one shop opens and more follow. The rest of the sentence says how things went on or spread from there.

How to form it

Noun + を皮かわ切きりに(して)

The して is optional and changes nothing; を皮かわ切きりとして is the same again. After a verb, add の: 開ひらくのを皮かわ切きりに.

Before it
The first of the run: a concert, an opening, a launch, an announcement, or just the place where it starts.
After it
The rest of the run: more of the same kind, one after another. Look for 続つづく, 順じゅん次じ, 次つぎ々つぎと, 各かく地ちで, 相あい次つぐ.
Where you'll meet it
News, business reports, publicity for tours and exhibitions. Out loud people say …から始はじまって.

In use

を皮かわ切きりに or をはじめ?

Both get translated "starting with". Only を皮かわ切きりに is about time.

The tour takes in five cities across the country, Tokyo among them.

Tokyo is the best-known of the five. It may not come first.

をはじめ(として)N2

It names one member and the sentence is about the whole group: "Kyoto and elsewhere".

Close neighbours

をきっかけにN2

One event sets off one change. Nothing more of the same kind has to follow.

Check yourself

1Which sentence sounds natural?

Choose an answer to see why.

2What does this tell you?

展てん覧らん会かいは京きょう都とを皮かわ切きりに、五いつつの都と市しで開ひらかれる。

Choose an answer to see why.

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