How to say "renaissance" in Japanese

• ルネサンスCommon
  nounThe Renaissance itself: the European movement in art, literature, and learning. Use it for the historical sense that English capitalizes; a figurative renaissance — a revival of something that declined — takes 復興 instead.
  イタリアンルネッサンスを開花かいかさせるきっかけを作つくったのはジョットの功績こうせきだ。↗

  Giotto is credited with sowing the seeds of the Italian Renaissance.
• 復興ふっこうJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbNever the historical Renaissance: this word means revival, reconstruction, restoration, or rebuilding. It corresponds to 'renaissance' only in the figurative sense of something — a city, an economy, an art — being revived or rebuilt.
  それはさらにいっそうの活力かつりょくで復興ふっこうした。↗

  It revived with even greater vigor.

Use 「ルネサンス」 for the Renaissance, the European cultural movement; use 復興 when 'renaissance' means a revival or rebuilding of something that had declined — 復興 is really 'revival, reconstruction'.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• ルネサンスRenaissance
• 復興ふっこうrevival
• 文芸復興ぶんげいふっこうRenaissance