幽ゆう冥めい

noun

darkness and light; the netherworld and this world; semidarkness; deep and strange

Literary term encompassing the boundary between the dark, mysterious realm (often the afterlife) and the world of the living, or the interplay of darkness and light. The glosses 'semidarkness' and 'deep and strange' reflect poetic or archaic uses. The word is rare in modern everyday speech and is mostly found in classical literature, religious texts, or poetic descriptions.

• 幽ゆう冥めいの境さかいをさまよう魂たましいの話はなしは、古こ典てん文ぶん学がくによく登とう場じょうする。

  Stories of souls wandering the boundary between this world and the netherworld often appear in classical literature.

• 彼かれの絵えは幽ゆう冥めいの世せ界かいを思おもわせる深ふかい闇やみを描えがいている。

  His paintings depict a profound darkness reminiscent of the netherworld.