noun
A Dark Night's Passing
Title of a novel by Shiga Naoya; used as a proper noun for the literary work.
志賀直哉の『暗夜行路』は、日本文学の名作の一つです。
Shiga Naoya's 'A Dark Night's Passing' is one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature.
The title is a compound of 暗夜 (dark night) and 行路 (journey/path), literally 'dark night journey'. The exact derivation of the title is tied to the novel's themes.