異郷

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The literary noun 異郷 (いきょう) denotes a strange or distant land away from one's home.
• Basic usage: It may describe a festival in that land or form 異郷暮らし for life spent far from home.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A place far from home
  • It need not be a foreign country; the key perspective is distance from one's home region.