人じん煙えん

noun

smoke from human dwellings; sign of human habitation

Literary word evoking the presence of people through the smoke rising from their homes; often used in descriptions of desolate or uninhabited places.

• 人じん煙えんのない荒こう野やが広ひろがっていた。

  A wilderness without any sign of human habitation stretched out.

• 遠とおくに人じん煙えんが立たち上のぼるのが見みえた。

  In the distance, smoke rising from a settlement could be seen.