仙境

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 仙境 is read as せんきょう and is a literary noun for an enchanted, otherworldly landscape imagined as a realm apart from ordinary life.
• Basic usage: A valley may be described as 仙境のようだ, while an imagined mountain retreat appears in 山奥の仙境.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A figurative description of scenery
  • Rather than naming an ordinary place, it portrays a misty valley or remote mountains as mysteriously beautiful and unreal.
• Difference from 絶景
  • 絶景 praises a magnificent view before one's eyes, whereas 仙境 adds the atmosphere of a secluded immortal realm.