天てん府ぷ

noun

fertile land; deep scholarship

Classical Chinese-derived term for a land blessed with natural abundance or, by extension, profound learning. Rare in modern Japanese; mostly encountered in literary or historical texts.

• 古ふるい漢かん詩しでは、天てん府ぷの地ちと称しょうされる豊ゆたかな土と地ちが詠よまれている。

  In old Chinese-style poetry, a fertile land called 天府 is celebrated.

• 彼かれの学がく識しきはまさに天てん府ぷのごとく深ふかいと評ひょうされた。

  His scholarship was praised as being as profound as 天府.