1.
mountain village; secluded village in the hills
A small village set deep in the mountains, away from towns. The word carries a quiet, remote, somewhat poetic image.
静かな山里で暮らす。
to live in a quiet mountain village
山里の秋は紅葉が美しい。
Autumn in the mountain village is beautiful with the colored leaves.
祖父母の家は、バスが一日に数本しか来ない山里にある。
My grandparents' house is in a mountain village where only a few buses come each day.
A village located deep in the mountains, far from urban areas. The word has a calm, somewhat poetic and nostalgic flavor and appears often in literature and poetry.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 静かな山里: a quiet mountain village
- 山里の暮らし: life in a mountain village
- 山里の風景: mountain-village scenery
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 田舎: countryside; rural area — the general term for the country, not specifically mountainous
- 村: village — a neutral administrative or geographic term