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十六夜
十六夜
Japanese
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| 十 | 六 | 夜 |
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Noun
十六夜 (hiragana いざよい, romaji izayoi, historical hiragana いざよひ)
- Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past full moon, the start of the waning moon.
- The sixteenth of the month under the lunar calendar, the night just after full moon; compare to English ides. A common time for viewing the harvest moon in the Japanese 月見 (tsukimi) festival.
- Being sixteen years old.
- (archaic) A bet of 16 銭 (sen) on a competition or game of chance.
- A female given name.
Derived terms
- 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): The moon just past full moon, the start of the waning moon. Also known as 既望の月 (kibō no tsuki).
- 十六夜清心 (Izayoi Seishin): Common name for the Kabuki play, 小袖曾我薊色縫 (こそでそがあざみのいろぬい, Kosode Soga Azami no Ironui). (See Wikipedia:ja:小袖曾我薊色縫.)
- 十六夜日記 (Izayoi Nikki): A single-volume travelogue written in the mid-Kamakura Period by the Buddhist nun Abutsu-ni. (See Wikipedia:ja:十六夜日記, Wikipedia:ja:阿仏尼.)
- 十六夜日記残月鈔 (Izayoi Nikki Zangetsu Shō): The first annotation of the Izayoi Nikki. Comprised of three volumes, jointly written by late-Edo Period literary scholar 小山田与清 (Oyamada Tomoyuki) and his apprentice 北条時隣 (Hōjō Tokichika) and published in 1824. (See Wikipedia:ja:十六夜日記残月鈔.)
- 十六夜薔薇 (izayoi bara): The chestnut or burr rose: a species of rose native to east Asia, Rosa roxburghii. Member of sub-genus Platyrhodon.
