閑

Meanings

1. Noun

   spare time; free time; leisure

• 閑かんさや岩いわに染しみ入いる蝉せみの声こえ

  Quietness! The cicada song soaks into the rocks.

• ここ浄閑かん寺てら、通称つうしょう「投なげ込こみ寺てら」の墓地ぼちには、最後さいごの休息きゅうそく場所ばしょを見みつけた何千なんぜんもの遊女ゆうじょ、いわゆる「楽たのしみのための女性じょせい」の慰霊碑いれいひがあり、それは言いい知しれない哀愁あいしゅうに満みちていて、どういうわけか何度なんどでもここに戻もどってきたい気持きもちが沸わき起おこる。

  Here at the Jokanji, also known as the "Nagekomi-dera", in the cemetery there is a memorial to thousands of prostitutes, the so-called "women of pleasure", who have found their final resting place here. It's filled with an indescribable melancholy, and, for some reason, it makes me want to come back here again and again.