慰霊碑

Meanings

1. Noun

   cenotaph; memorial monument

• 禎子の友人ゆうじん達たちは、彼女かのじょと原爆げんばくでなくなったすべての子供達こどもたちの慰霊碑いれいひを建たてたいと思おもった。

  Sadako's friends wanted to build a monument to her and all children who were killed by the atomic bomb.

• 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.