楽らく園えん

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Meanings

Refers to an ideal, blissful place, often with religious or utopian connotations. Can be used literally for the Garden of Eden or figuratively for any heavenly place.

この島しまはまさに楽らく園えんだ。
This island is truly a paradise.
アダムとイブは楽らく園えんを追つい放ほうされた。
Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden.

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Usage patterns

〈場ば所しょ〉は楽らく園えんだto describe a place as a paradise
このビーチはまるで楽らく園えんだ。
This beach is like paradise.
楽らく園えんを築きずくto build/create a paradise
彼かれらは無む人じん島とうに楽らく園えんを築きずいた。
They built a paradise on the deserted island.
〈物もの〉の楽らく園えんa paradise (haven) for a particular thing or group
この島しまは野や鳥ちょうの楽らく園えんと呼よばれている。
This island is called a paradise for wild birds.

Expressions

地ち上じょうの楽らく園えんearthly paradise; heaven on earth

Kanji

楽music, comfort, ease
園park, garden, yard

Related words

天てん国ごくN2
天国 usually means heaven in a religious or afterlife sense, while 楽園 can describe any ideal, blissful place whether religious or secular.
パラダイス
パラダイス is a casual loanword often used for resorts or entertainment, whereas 楽園 is the native Sino-Japanese term with more literary or religious weight.
極ごく楽らくN1
極楽 specifically refers to the Buddhist paradise (Pure Land), while 楽園 is a more general term usable for any earthly or mythical utopia.
ユートピア
ユートピア emphasizes an ideal imagined society or system, while 楽園 focuses on a place of natural beauty or bliss.
エデン
楽園 is a general term for paradise or a pleasure garden, while エデン specifically refers to the biblical Garden of Eden.

Opposites

地じ獄ごくN2
地獄 means hell, the direct opposite of the blissful, ideal 楽園.

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 樂園 (MC lɑk̚ ɦʉɐn), literally 'pleasure garden'. The kanji 楽 means 'comfort, ease, music' and 園 means 'garden, park'. The word entered Japanese as a Buddhist term for a blissful realm and later extended to the Christian concept of Eden and general paradises.