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Japanese
Etymology
Literally “to flip over one’s nightrobe”.
Idiom
夜の衣を返す • (yoru no koromo o kaesu)
- (archaic, literary) to sleep with clothes overturned, as to meet their longed-for partner in a dream
- 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 12, poem 554)
- いとせめてこひしき時はむばたまの夜の衣をかへしてぞきる
- ito semete koishiki toki wa mubatama no yoru no koromo o kaeshite zo kiru
- Just as so much time longing is the wearing inside-out my jet-black nightrobe.
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