末まっ法ぽう思し想そう

noun

pessimism from the idea of a degenerate age

A yojijukugo rooted in the Buddhist concept of mappō (the Latter Day of the Law), referring to a worldview that sees the present era as one of decline and moral decay.

• 末まっ法ぽう思し想そうは、平へい安あん時じ代だい末まっ期きの貴き族ぞくの間あいだで広ひろまった。

  Pessimism based on the idea of a degenerate age spread among the nobility at the end of the Heian period.