きょうかすいげつ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きょうかすいげつ – see the following entry.

【鏡花水月】 [noun] flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface [noun] (by extension, idiomatic) something that is visible but having no substance; illusion, mere shadow, phantom, vision [noun] the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words​

(This term, きょうかすいげつ (kyōkasuigetsu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)