復活

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 復活 is a noun read ふっかつ, meaning the revival or return of something that disappeared or stopped. 復活する is intransitive, while 復活させる means causing something to return.
• Basic usage: It can describe a suspended market returning or an event intended to revive an old form of play.
  • 休止していた朝市が三年ぶりに復活した。 says that the suspended morning market returned after three years; 古い遊びを復活させる催しを企画した。 says that an event was planned to revive traditional games.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 三年ぶりに復活する
  • 三年ぶりに marks the three-year interval since the market was last active.
• 復活させる
  • The causative form gives a transitive sense: the event makes the old games active again.
• 復活 and 再開
  • 復活 can revive something that disappeared or declined, while 再開 focuses on resuming an activity that stopped.