うきよ – Vocabulary details

うきよ

Noun

1. fleeting life; this transient world; floating world

2. sad world; world of grief and worry

esp. 憂き世

3. the world of the living; this life; this world; the present world

4. (the world of the) red light districts

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floating; buoyancy; fishing float; bobber; buoy; lifebuoy

world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign

ukiyoe artist

otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense

ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print

the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life); (just) the way things are

life is but a dream; this too shall pass; everything is transient

this transient world

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