Word.ws English Dictionary

mori kei

/ˌmɔɹi ˈkeɪ/

mori kei noun: a Japanese fashion aesthetic that celebrates forests, flowers, and other idyllic aspects of nature and rural living.

Noun

mori kei (uncountable)

  1. (aesthetic) A Japanese fashion aesthetic that celebrates forests, flowers, and other idyllic aspects of nature and rural living.
    • My favourite subculture, that I eventually aspire to be a part of (both in my designs and in the way I dress) is Mori Kei.2013 March, Mariam Armisen, quoting Stéphane Aurore Koné, “On Embracing Quirkiness”, in Q Zine, number 8, page 59
    • Mori Girl style, or Mori Kei, developed in the late 2000s, and is of particular interest to a forest-loving fairy-minded man or woman.2019, The Faerie Handbook, page 130

Origin of mori kei

From Japanese 森系(もりけい) (mori-kei, literally “forest style”).

Questions about mori kei

What does mori kei mean?
Mori kei means a Japanese fashion aesthetic that celebrates forests, flowers, and other idyllic aspects of nature and rural living.
What part of speech is mori kei?
Mori kei is a noun.
How do you pronounce mori kei?
Mori kei is pronounced /ˌmɔɹi ˈkeɪ/.

Words near mori kei in the dictionary

  1. Morgons
  2. morgue
  3. morguelike
  4. morgues
  5. Mori
  6. mori kei
  7. moria
  8. Moriac
  9. Moriah
  10. Morian
  11. Morians

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mori kei (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mori kei.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mori_kei. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.