1ヶ月ぶりの幼稚園と台風の影響

What does 〜ぶり (buri) mean in Japanese?

〜ぶり (buri) attaches to a length of time to mean “for the first time in [that long]” — 一ヶ月ぶり is “for the first time in a month,” 五年ぶり is “for the first time in five years.” It almost always carries an emotional undertone, depending on what’s being resumed: relief, nostalgia, or mild dread at how much time has passed.

This clip’s title, 1ヶ月ぶりの幼稚園, sets up the whole scene: after weeks away, a child is finally headed back to preschool — until a typhoon gets in the way, 台風でお休みです, “closed because of the typhoon.” ぶり pairs with any time unit: 日, 週間, ヶ月, 年. It differs from から (since) or 以来 (irai, ever since) by making the length of the gap itself the noteworthy part — 五年ぶりに会った (“met for the first time in five years”) lands very differently from 五年前から会っていない (“haven’t met since five years ago”).