夜の衣を返す
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Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 夜 | 衣 | 返 |
| よる Grade: 2 |
ころも Grade: 4 |
かえ Grade: 3 |
| kun'yomi | ||
Etymology
[edit]Literally “to flip over one’s nightrobe”.
Idiom
[edit]夜の衣を返す • (yoru no koromo o kaesu)
- (archaic, literary) to sleep with clothes overturned, as to meet their longed-for partner in a dream
- 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 12, poem 554)
- いとせめてこひしき時はむばたまの夜の衣をかへしてぞきる
- ito semete koishiki toki wa mubatama no yoru no koromo o kaeshite zo kiru
- Just as so much time longing [for him] is the wearing inside-out my jet-black nightrobe.
- いとせめてこひしき時はむばたまの夜の衣をかへしてぞきる
- 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 12, poem 554)
See also
[edit]- 衣を返す (koromo o kaesu)
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