Meaning
退廃 (たいはい, taihai) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “decadence”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
その 国の 政治は 退廃している
Politics in that country are corrupt.
彼は 退廃 的な 音楽を 聞くのが 好きだ
He likes to listen to immoral music.
退廃の中で、火をおこす技術も地上から忘れ去られたのです。
In this decadence, too, the art of fire-making had been forgotten on the earth.
学僧として名が高かったが、南都の仏教の退廃を嘆き、笠置に隠棲した。
He was renowned as a learned priest but lamented the degeneration of Buddhism in Nanto and secluded himself in Kasagi.
それはアートとエロティシズムに向かい、やがて怠惰と退廃に向かうのです。
it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.
カーライル式に、このろくでもない退廃した貴族階級を非難もしてみました。
I even tried a Carlyle-like scorn of this wretched aristocracy in decay.
独自性の際立つ退廃的で妖艶な美人画で知られ、春画と好色本にも作品が多い。
He was renowned for decadent and voluptuous Bijinga (a type of Ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women) with strong originality and produced many works of Shunga (erotic arts) and Koshokubon (books on love).
しかし保守的な武士からは絵画的で華美な刃文で退廃的だと忌避されるものもあった。
However, conservative samurai avoided some of them because they thought those swords looked decadent with the picturesque and ornate Hamon (blade pattern).
潜伏する理由として、金儲けを企む者に知られて教えが退廃することを防ぐためとされる。
The believers say they conceal themselves for fear that the teachings will deteriorate when money chasers come to know and utilize these teachings.
人情本(にんじょうぼん)とは、江戸時代の戯作文芸の一種で、退廃的な恋愛や風俗を中心に描いたもの。
The ninjobon refers to a genre of gesaku literature (literary work of a playful, mocking, joking, silly or frivolous nature) written during the Edo period that mainly dealt with decadent love affairs and contemporary life of Edo (now Tokyo).
一方、欧化政策を批判する国粋主義者は「嬌奢を競い淫逸にいたる退廃的行事」として非難の声を挙げていた。
On the other hand, nationalists attacking the Europeanization policy criticized these events as being 'decadent functions leading to competition for lust and luxury and to indulgence in pleasure.'
文化_(元号)・文政期以降になると渓斎英泉が描くような嗜虐趣味や屈折した情念を表すような退廃的な美人画が広まる。
After the Bunka-Bunsei period, bijinga of a decadent style such as those drawn by Eisen KEISAI, which are of sadistic taste and represented perverse pathos, became popular.