夢の通い路

夢の通い路

Japanese

Kanji in this term
夢	通	路
ゆめ Grade: 5	かよ Grade: 2	ち > じ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Etymology

From 夢 (yume, “dream”) + 通い路 (kayoiji, “route”).

Noun

夢(ゆめ)の通(かよ)い路(じ) • (yume no kayoiji) ^{←ゆめのかよひぢ (yumenokayofidi)?}

1. the path of dreams
   • 905, Kokin Wakashū (book 12, poem 559; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 18)

     住(すみ)の江(え)の岸(きし)に寄(よ)る波(なみ)よるさへや夢(ゆめ)のかよひぢ人(ひと)目(め)よくらむ

     Suminoe no kishi ni yoru nami yoru sae ya yume no kayoiji hitome yokuran

     To Suminoe shore waves advance across the sea: must I see him even in the night look round and hesitate upon the path of dreams?[1]

2. (by extension) dreaming

Synonyms

• 夢(ゆめ)路(じ) (yumeji)

References

1. Edwin A. Cranston (1993) A Waka Anthology: Grasses of remembrance (2 v.)‎, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 44