Emerging from the heavens - Ukatosen

Japanese: 羽化登仙 - うかとうせん
Emerging from the heavens - Ukatosen
(To move to the mountains and become a hermit) To sprout wings and fly up to the sky. It is also a metaphor for getting drunk and feeling otherworldly good.

[Example] If you want to truly enjoy the sensation of flying and becoming a bird, you can't just look out of the window of a big plane. [Uchida Hyakken * Hyakkien Essays | 1933]

[Example] He was so soft, as if he had no muscles, I couldn't feel his bones. This was also strange. I thought that if I slept with him one night, I would enter the state of enlightenment. [Fumiko Enchi * Sagiri | 1976]

[Explanation] "Emerging" usually refers to an insect's transformation from a chrysalis to an adult and the growth of wings, but here it refers to a person becoming a celestial immortal with the power to ascend to heaven, and growing wings to do so. "Tosen" means becoming a celestial immortal and ascending to heaven, and is based on the Chinese idea of ​​immortality. Nowadays, it is used without such ideological background to mean "feeling like you're ascending to heaven."

Source: Dictionary of Four-character Idioms About Dictionary of Four-character Idioms Information

Japanese:
(山に移り住んで仙人となり)羽が生えて、天にのぼること。また、酒に酔うなどして、この世ならぬよい気分になることのたとえ。

[使用例] 飛行機に乗って本当に羽化登仙の感興をほしいままにするには、大きな飛行機の窓から覗いているのでは駄目です[内田百閒*百鬼園随筆|1933]

[使用例] まるで筋肉のないみたいに軟かくって、骨格が感じられないんだよ。これもまた不思議でね。この人と一晩寝たら、羽化登仙の境に入るのではないかと思ったのさ[円地文子*彩霧|1976]

[解説] 「羽化」はふつう昆虫について、さなぎから成虫になり、羽が生えることをいいますが、ここでは人が天仙といって天にのぼる力のある仙人となり、そのための羽が生えること。「登仙」はその天仙になり天にのぼることで、中国の神仙思想にもとづいています。現在ではそうした思想の背景なしに、「天にのぼるような気分」の意味に用います。

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