叔しゅく世せい

noun

age of decline; decadent era

Archaic term for a period of moral or social decay, often used in classical Chinese-influenced writing.

• 「叔世」は、古ふるい漢かん文ぶんで世よの終おわりや退たい廃はいした時じ代だいを指さす言こと葉ばとして見みられる。

  In old Chinese-style texts, 叔世 is seen as a word for the end of an era or a decadent age.