夜

Vocabulary (12)

• 終夜営業

  しゅうやえいぎょう

  (a business) open all night

• 夜深い

  よぶかい

  (staying) up late at night

• 三日三夜

  みっかみよ

  3 days and 3 nights

• 暗夜行路

  あんやこうろ

  A Dark Night's Passing (novel by Shiga Naoya)

• 夏の夜の夢

  なつのよのゆめ

  A Midsummer Night's Dream (comedy by William Shakespeare)

• 夜叉五倍子

  やしゃぶし

  Alnus firma (species of alder)

• 武功夜話

  ぶこうやわ

  Bukouyawa (chronicle covering the Warring States to Momoyama periods, probably bogus)

• 秩父夜祭

  ちちぶよまつり

  Chichibu Festival

• 十日夜

  とおかや

  Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

• 三日夜の餅

  みかよのもち

  Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

• 犬夜叉

  いぬやしゃ

  Inuyasha (manga series)

• 夜糞峰榛

  よぐそみねばり

  Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa)