十六夜

Etymology 1
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From. Read as isayopi in the, shifting to isayofi and izayofi alternating in free variation with in the , and settling on izayoi thereafter.

Derived as the

The kanji spelling is, literally the "sixteenth night → night after the full moon". This sense arose from the way the moonrise is slightly later just after the full moon, as if the moon is hesitating.

Noun

 * : the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon
 * 1) the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon
 * 2)  sixteen years old
 * 3)  a bet of 16  on a competition or game of chance
 * 1)  a bet of 16  on a competition or game of chance

Derived terms

 * : common name for the kabuki play,
 * : single-volume travelogue written in the mid- by the Buddhist nun Abutsu-ni.
 * : The first annotation of the Izayoi Nikki. It consists of three volumes, jointly written by late- literary scholar Oyamada Tomoyuki and his apprentice Hōjō Tokichika, published in 1824
 * : species of rose native to east Asia,, member of sub-genus

Etymology 2
Compound of.

Noun

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