festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
festival; feast; carnival
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
festival merrymaking; revelry
to set up (in high position); to kick upstairs; to hold sacred; to worship
a day after the fair; (at a) stage when it's too late
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver
killing an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; blood offering; killing violently; bloodbath; victimizing
autumn festival; fall festival
to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; to kill viciously; to victimize; to torment
Buddha's birthday festival (April 8th); Vesak
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata
festive mood; holiday mood; festive atmosphere
Hinamatsuri (March 3); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival
fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires); New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine; festival involving fire dedicated to the gods
village festival; autumn festival; harvest festival
ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths
boat festival; festival with portable shrines carried on boats
main festival; main day of a festival
Nebuta Festival (in Aomori, August 2-7)
Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)
small festival held the night before the main festival; eve of a festival
festival in honor of Daikokuten
to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her
Aoi Festival (Kyoto, May 15); Aoi Matsuri
Kanda Festival (held at Kanda Myōjin Shrine in Tokyo on May 15)
to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors
ceremony for the repose of a soul; ceremony to pray for the long life of the emperor, empress, crown prince, etc.
Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)
Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray
Ainu bear-sacrifice festival; Iomante
shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
Aomori Nebuta Festival (August 2-7)
danjiri festival; cart-pulling festival
Festival of the Ages (held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto on October 22); Jidai Festival
(rocky) seashore party; seashore festival; celebration in honor of the dragon god by fishermen after a good haul
ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)
festival tabi; strong, rubber-soled footwear worn by festival participants
day-after festival; night-after festival; (smaller) festival held the day (or night) after the main festival
shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
Roman Festivals (Respighi)
the Feast of Weeks; Pentecost
minor festival (held in place of a larger festival that is not recurring every year)
ceremony to purify the ring before the start of a tournament
popular type of sushi bento, differing by regions; brand of sushi bento
one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month)