expression / noun:

• veil of darkness; curtain of night - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be overtaken by darkness

noun:

• scent of a flower floating about in the air; lingering scent of a flower in the darkness

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• pitch dark; total darkness

expression / noun:

• dark of the night; darkness of the night

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cover up; to hush up; to shroud in darkness

ichidan verb:

• to give way to the light of the morning (i.e. the darkness gives way)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose hope ➜ 目の前が暗くなる
• to be plunged into darkness