妍けん醜しゅう

noun

beauty and ugliness

Archaic literary term for the contrast between beauty and ugliness, often in a philosophical or aesthetic context. Not used in modern Japanese.

• 古こ典てんでは「妍けん醜しゅう」は美びと醜しゅうの対たい比ひを表あらわす語ごとして使つかわれた。

  In classical texts, 妍醜 was used as a word expressing the contrast between beauty and ugliness.