the darkest place is under the candlestick; can't see the wood for the trees; people often known little of what happens under their noses; lit. "dark under a candlestick"

tōrō nagashi (the custom of floating paper lanterns down a river especially at the end of the Bon Festival)

headlight, front vehicle light

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

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

Nymphaea lotus, the white Egyptian lotus

Compounds

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

Alternative form of 満遍ない

pedometer