太たい陽よう族ぞく

noun

dissolute postwar youths; Sun Tribe

Historical term from the mid-1950s, referring to a generation of young people known for hedonistic and rebellious behavior, named after Ishihara Shintarō's novel 「太陽の季節」 (Season of the Sun).

• 太たい陽よう族ぞくは1950年ねん代だいの日本にほんの若わか者もの文ぶん化かを象しょう徴ちょうする言こと葉ばだ。

  Taiyōzoku is a term that symbolizes the youth culture of 1950s Japan.

• 石いし原はら慎しん太た郎ろうの小しょう説せつが太たい陽よう族ぞくという言こと葉ばを生うんだ。

  Ishihara Shintarō's novel gave birth to the term taiyōzoku.