柴さい扉ひ

noun

brushwood door; wicker gate

Literary term for a simple gate or door made of brushwood, often associated with rustic or hermit-like dwellings in classical Chinese and Japanese poetry.

• 古ふるい漢かん詩しには「柴さい扉ひ」という言こと葉ばがよく出でてくる。

  The word 柴扉 often appears in old Chinese poems.

noun

humble abode; wretched shack

By extension, a humble or wretched dwelling, often used self-deprecatingly in classical literature. Not used in modern conversation.

• 隠いん者じゃは柴さい扉ひに住すみ、世せ俗ぞくを離はなれて暮くらした。

  The hermit lived in a humble brushwood hut, away from the world.