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

夢の通い路 (hiragana ゆめのかよいじ, rōmaji yume no kayoiji, historical hiragana ゆめのかよひぢ)

  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
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