空くう閨けい

noun

lonely spouseless bedroom; bedroom of a neglected spouse

Formal or literary term for a bedroom where a spouse is absent or neglected, evoking loneliness. Rare in everyday Japanese.

• 彼かの女じょは夫おっとの長ながい出しゅっ張ちょう中ちゅう、空くう閨けいを守まもっていた。

  She kept the lonely bedroom during her husband's long business trip.

• 古こ典てん文ぶん学がくには、空くう閨けいの寂さびしさを詠よんだ歌うたが多おおい。

  In classical literature, there are many poems that express the loneliness of an empty spousal bedroom.