lower world 意味

• {1} : 《ギリシャ神話》黄泉｛よみ｝の国
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  {2} : この世、下界｛げかい｝、現世｛げんせ｝
  

例文

1. susanoo was expelled to the lower world .
   スサノオは下界に追放された。
2. further , he became being perceived as a dreadful deity who dominated the lower world , judged the dead and threw them into hell; eventually , he became a being depicted simply as death .
   またさらに下界を支配して死者を裁き、地獄に落とす恐るべき神と考えられる様になり、ついには単なる死神としても描かれる様になった。
3. as part of the policy of the edo bakufu (japanese feudal government headed by a shogun ) concerning the imperial court and religion , the bakufu submitted a request to the imperial court in 1638 for a prince to move outside of kyoto (regarded as " descending " from the holy imperial compounds to the lower world ), and an understanding was reached beteween the bakufu and the imperial court the following year for such an arrangement .
   1638年（寛永15） 江戸幕府が対朝廷政策・宗教政策の一環として、幕府が朝廷に対して皇子下向の要請を出し、翌年に幕府と朝廷との間に皇子下向の契約が結ばれる。