偲しのふ

yodan verb with 'hu/fu' ending (archaic), transitive verb

recollect; remember; reminisce; be nostalgic for

Archaic form of 偲ぶ (しのぶ). Used in classical Japanese to express fond recollection or nostalgia for the past.

See also: 偲ぶ

• 古ふるき日ひを偲しのふ歌うたが万まん葉よう集しゅうに残のこっている。

  Poems that recollect old days remain in the Man'yōshū.

yodan verb with 'hu/fu' ending (archaic), transitive verb

imagine; guess; infer

Archaic use, now obsolete. In classical texts, 偲ふ could also mean to imagine or infer something not directly known.

See also: 偲ぶ

• 遠とおき地ちの様よう子すを偲しのふよりほかなかった。

  There was no choice but to imagine the state of the distant land.