意い匠しょう惨さん憺たん

noun

taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over design or creation; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means

A yojijukugo describing the intense mental effort and creative struggle involved in designing, planning, or devising something. Often used in literary or formal contexts to emphasize the painstaking process of creation.

• 彼かれの新しん作さくは意い匠しょう惨さん憺たんの末すえに生うまれた傑けっ作さくだ。

  His new work is a masterpiece born after much agonizing over its design.

• 意い匠しょう惨さん憺たんして練ねり上あげた企き画かくがようやく採さい用ようされた。

  The plan, devised after strenuous efforts, was finally adopted.