春しゅん眠みん

noun

spring sleep; deep sleep in spring

Literary noun referring to the deep, pleasant sleep associated with springtime. Often appears in the proverb 春眠暁を覚えず (shunmin akatsuki o oboezu, 'In spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn').

• 春しゅん眠みん暁あかつきを覚おぼえず、という言こと葉ばがある。

  There is a saying: 'In spring, one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn.'

• 春はるの陽よう気きに誘さそわれて、春しゅん眠みんの心地ここちよさを味あじわった。

  Lured by the spring weather, I savored the comfort of a spring slumber.