夜宴

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 夜宴(やえん) refers to a banquet held at night.
• Basic usage: It describes a feast celebrating victory or an evening gathering with music in a garden.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A banquet and its timing
  • 宴会 broadly names a banquet or party, while 夜宴 specifies that it takes place at night.
• Reading and register
  • 夜 is read や and 宴 is read えん, joined together. The word suits formal narration or literary description more than an everyday gathering name.