華か胥しょ

noun

ideal land; perfect country; utopia

A classical Chinese allusion to a dream of an ideal realm. Used in literary or philosophical contexts to refer to a perfect, imaginary land.

• 華か胥しょの国くには、中ちゅう国ごくの古こ典てんに登とう場じょうする理り想そう郷きょうである。

  The land of Kasho is an ideal realm that appears in classical Chinese texts.

noun

afternoon nap

Derived from the same classical story, where the Yellow Emperor dreamed of the ideal land during a nap. Rarely used in modern Japanese; mostly encountered in literary or historical contexts.

• 「華か胥しょ」という言こと葉ばは、午ご睡すいの意い味みでも使つかわれることがある。