往おう事じ渺びょう茫ぼう

taru-adjective, adverb taking the 'to' particle

past events fading into distant memory

Archaic literary expression describing how memories of the past become hazy and remote. Used as a taru-adjective or adverbially with と.

See also: 往事茫々

• 往おう事じ渺びょう茫ぼうとして思おもい出だせない。

  The past events are so distant that I cannot recall them.

• 往おう事じ渺びょう茫ぼうたる思おもいにふける。

  I am lost in thoughts of the far-off past.