late at night

(Hinduism) Yama, the Hindu god of death / (Buddhism) Short for 夜摩天 (Yamaten): Yama, the Buddhist ruler of 奈落 (Naraku, “Naraka, hell”)

Kyūjitai form of 夜来

the declaration of night time via a rooster's crow

a motif in Chinese art featuring the "three friends of winter": pine (or daffodil), bamboo, and plum blossom

the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon

Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon

Nymphaea lotus, the white Egyptian lotus

(archaic, literary) to sleep with clothes overturned, as to meet their longed-for partner in a dream

Compounds