school festival; cultural festival; annual open day school event showcasing student talent
school festival; campus festival
(school) athletic festival; sports day; field day
anniversary; commemoration
midsummer feast; summer solstice celebration; St John's day
closing party; closing event of a school, etc. festival
ritual; religious service; festival
the eve (of a festival) (e.g. Christmas Eve)
ritual implement storehouse
Thanksgiving (US, Canada)
national holiday; festival day
Christmas; Nativity; celebration of the birthday of a saint or great man
equipment used in a ritual; ritual implement
address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era
important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
first ceremonial offering of rice by newly-enthroned Emperor
carnival (festival held before Lent)
vestments worn by priests and attendants (Shinto, Christian, etc.)
ceremonial offering to the deities by the Emperor of newly-harvested rice
Catholic rite (e.g. mass); hierurgy
equipment used in rituals
ceremony for the repose of a soul; ceremony to pray for the long life of the emperor, empress, crown prince, etc.
(head) priest; head priest of the Ise Shrine
funerals and ceremonial occasions
strange festival; odd festival
university festival; rag day
regular festival; annual festival
ceremony for purifying a building site (before building commences); ground-breaking ceremony
arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry; literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.; otters lining a catch of fish on a river bank; (people) making offerings (esp. of fish)
offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)
unity of church and state; theocracy
prayer service for a good crop
ceremony to celebrate crossing the equator
official who arranges festival and rites
Independence Day celebration
burnt offering (i.e. religious animal sacrifice)
international film festival
Thanksgiving Day; harvest festival
Ascension Day; Feast of the Ascension
ceremony for moving a deity to a new site
memorial service (esp. for war dead)
fertility festival; harvest festival
joint service for the war dead
centenary; centennial celebration
ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
religious ceremony (to appease the gods)
imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox
festival celebrating the (temporary) transfer of a shintai away from its main shrine
Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3, the supposed day of his death)
rites conducted by the emperor
imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox
transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another)
tree-planting ceremony; Arbor Day
fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
Ara (constellation); the Altar
father confessor; confessor
separation of church and state; separation of religious ritual and government administration
equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors
donation made at a ritual
offerings; offerings and worship
tomb sweeping festival (Okinawa, April 4 or 5)
ridgepole-raising ceremony
imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)
Festival of Origins (January 3)
festival for requests and expressions of thanks to the gods (Okinawa)
Iwashimizu Festival (Sept. 15 festival held at Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto)
Plum Blossom Festival (Kitano Shrine, February 25)
festival celebrating the return of a shintai to its main shrine
kabuki performance in commemoration of Danjuro and Kikugoro
gift at a memorial service
Festival of Zeus (held at Olympia every four years from 776 BCE to 393 BCE)
shrine whose rituals are attended by an imperial envoy (who presents offerings)
festival held by imperial order