好況

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 好況 is read as こうきょう and is a noun for a boom or prosperous economic condition.
• Basic usage: A factory being prosperous appears in 工場は好況だ, while lodging arising from a boom appears in 好況を受けて宿が建つ.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Condition and background cause
  • Use だ for the condition and を受けて when it forms the background for change.
• Difference from 景気
  • 好況 explicitly denotes favorable conditions rather than economic conditions in general.