不遇時代

ふぐうじだい

noun

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one's dark days, the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity(yojijukugo)

不	negative, non-, bad, ugly, clumsy
遇	meet, encounter, interview, treat, entertain, receive, deal with
時	time, hour
代	substitute, change, convert, replace, period, age, counter for decades of ages, eras, etc., generation, charge, rate, fee