青春時代(せいしゅんじだい)

せいしゅんじだい
noun
one's youth; adolescent years
time-period
1. one's youth; adolescent years; the springtime of life
The years of late adolescence and early adulthood, roughly the school and university period, seen as a time of energy, friendship, and first love. The word is warm and nostalgic, and is almost always used looking back.
青春時代(せいしゅんじだい)を思(おも)い出(だ)す。
To remember one's youth.
父(ちち)の青春時代(せいしゅんじだい)の写真(しゃしん)を見(み)せてもらった。
I was shown photographs from my father's youth.
毎日(まいにち)練習(れんしゅう)ばかりだったが、あの三年間(さんねんかん)が私(わたし)の青春時代(せいしゅんじだい)だった。
It was nothing but practice every day, but those three years were the springtime of my life.

青春(せいしゅん) (youth, literally "blue spring") + 時代(じだい) (era, period). The word carries the emotional colour of 青春(せいしゅん) — idealism, intensity, and things that cannot come again.

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Compare: 少年時代(しょうねんじだい) (boyhood)
Compare: 思春期(ししゅんき) (puberty, adolescence)
Compare: 学生時代(がくせいじだい) (one's school days)
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Added 2026.7.30 21:18 · Revised 2026.10.10 5:11
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