verkitschen

Japanese: verkitschen
verkitschen

...Therefore, it includes a sense of wonder and strangeness as a characteristic, but it does not have an attitude of trying to overcome the current situation by using them. The word "kitsch" comes from a word used in southern Germany (such as verkitschen, which means "to become vulgar"), and it first came to be used in its modern sense in Munich around 1860. That is, during the golden age of department stores, which could be called the palaces of bourgeois society, it became a word to describe the aesthetic qualities of the goods sold there. ...

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Japanese:

…したがって,驚異や奇嬌さもひとつの特徴として含むが,さりとてそれによって現状を乗り越えていこうとする態度をもつわけではない。 〈キッチュ〉という言葉は,南ドイツで使われていた言葉(たとえば〈低俗化する〉を意味するフェアキッチェンverkitschenなど)に由来し,1860年ころミュンヘンで,初めて近代的な意味で使われるようになった。すなわち,ブルジョア社会の宮殿ともいうべき百貨店の黄金時代に,そこで売られる品物の美的性質を言い表す言葉になったのである。…

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