砧ちん声せい

noun

sound of fulling blocks pounding cloth

Rare literary term evoking the rhythmic sound of wooden mallets beating cloth on a fulling block, a traditional autumn image in classical Japanese poetry.

See also: 砧

• 古ふるい和わ歌かには、秋あきの夜よに砧ちん声せいが響ひびく情じょう景けいが詠よまれている。

  In old waka poems, scenes of the sound of fulling blocks echoing on autumn nights are composed.