何も(なにも)することがなく退屈な(たいくつな)時間に(じかんに)、心に(こころに)浮かぶ(うかぶ)よしなしごとを書き留める(かきとめる)時

Beginning with 'In my tedious hours, spending all day facing the inkstone...', 'Tsurezuregusa' (Essays in Idleness) is an essay written in the late Kamakura period by Yoshida Kenko. He described the intrigue of writing: 'When I write down the trivial thoughts that come and go in my mind all day long facing the inkstone in idleness, I strangely feel a mysterious state of mind as if going mad.'