八はっ荒こう

noun

the national boundaries; the eight directions; the whole land

Archaic literary term referring to the farthest reaches of the country or the entire realm, originally from the Chinese concept of the eight cardinal directions. Not used in everyday modern Japanese.

• 「八はっ荒こう」は、古ふるい漢かん文ぶんで天てん下かの果はてを指さす言こと葉ばだ。

  八荒 is a word from old Chinese texts that refers to the ends of the earth.