所しょ願がん

noun

wish; desire

Formal, literary noun for a heartfelt wish or desire. In modern Japanese, 願い (negai) or 希望 (kibō) are far more common.

• 彼かれの所しょ願がんは、世せ界かい平へい和わの実じつ現げんだ。

  His heartfelt wish is the realization of world peace.