夜よるのしじま

expression

stillness of night; quiet of the night

Poetic expression for the deep silence and stillness of nighttime.

• 夜よるのしじまに包つつまれて、遠とおくの虫むしの音ねだけが聞きこえた。

  Enveloped in the stillness of night, only the distant chirping of insects could be heard.