波なみ枕まくら

noun

sleeping on a sea voyage; falling asleep to ocean sounds

Poetic noun evoking the image of using the waves as a pillow while traveling by boat, or drifting off to the sound of the sea.

• 船ふな旅たびの夜よる、波なみ枕まくらで眠ねむりについた。

  On the night of the sea voyage, I fell asleep with the waves as my pillow.

• 海かい岸がん近ちかくの宿やどで、波なみ枕まくらの一いち夜やを過すごした。

  At an inn near the shore, I spent a night falling asleep to the sound of the waves.