塗と炭たん

noun

misery; distress

Literary noun meaning extreme hardship or suffering. Often used in the set phrase 塗炭の苦しみ (the agony of misery).

• 戦せん争そうは人ひと々びとに塗と炭たんの苦くるしみを与あたえた。

  The war brought the agony of misery to the people.