お国くに

noun

your country; your hometown

Honorific term used when respectfully referring to the listener's native country or hometown. Often used in formal or polite conversation.

• お国くにはどちらですか。

  Which country are you from? (polite)

• お国くにの料りょう理りを教おしえてください。

  Please tell me about the cuisine of your home country.

noun

my home country (Japan)

Polite way to refer to one's own country, Japan, especially when speaking to someone from outside Japan. Carries a humble nuance about one's own country.

• お国くにでは、このような習しゅう慣かんはありません。

  In my country (Japan), we don't have such a custom.

noun

countryside; rural area

Refers to the countryside or rural areas, often with a nostalgic or traditional nuance. Can be used neutrally or affectionately.

• お国くにから出でてきて、都と会かいの生せい活かつに慣なれない。

  Having come from the countryside, I'm not used to city life.

• お国くに言こと葉ばが抜ぬけない。

  I can't shake off my rural dialect.

noun

daimyo's territory (Edo period)

Archaic term used in the Edo period to refer to the domain or territory of a daimyo. Not used in modern Japanese outside historical contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、お国くに元もとへ帰かえることを「お国くに入いり」と言いった。

  In the Edo period, returning to one's domain was called 'okuni-iri'.