遠えん陬すう

noun

land distant from the capital; remote region

Literary term for a far-off province or area far from the seat of government. Rare in modern Japanese; mainly encountered in classical or historical contexts.

• その昔むかし、遠えん陬すうの地ちに流ながされた貴き族ぞくがいたという。

  Long ago, it is said that a noble was exiled to a land distant from the capital.

• 「遠えん陬すう」は、都みやこから遠とおく離はなれた辺へん境きょうを指さす古ふるい言こと葉ばだ。

  遠陬 is an old word that refers to a remote frontier far from the capital.