festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
midsummer feast; summer solstice celebration; St John's day
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata
festival; feast; carnival
Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)
first ceremonial offering of rice by newly-enthroned Emperor
Buddha's birthday festival (April 8th); Vesak
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver
main festival; main day of a festival
ceremony for the repose of a soul; ceremony to pray for the long life of the emperor, empress, crown prince, etc.
Aoi Festival (Kyoto, May 15); Aoi Matsuri
Kanda Festival (held at Kanda Myōjin Shrine in Tokyo on May 15)
offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)
a day after the fair; (at a) stage when it's too late
prayer service for a good crop
ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
Festival of the Ages (held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto on October 22); Jidai Festival
fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires); New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine; festival involving fire dedicated to the gods
festival merrymaking; revelry
autumn festival; fall festival
Hinamatsuri (March 3); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival
traditional festival on Iriomote Island (southern Okinawa)
Sannō Festival (Hie Shrine in Tokyo; June 15); Sannō Festival (Hie Shrine in Shiga; April 14)
to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; to kill viciously; to victimize; to torment
Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)
small festival held the night before the main festival; eve of a festival
Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)
boat festival; festival with portable shrines carried on boats
(rocky) seashore party; seashore festival; celebration in honor of the dragon god by fishermen after a good haul
to set up (in high position); to kick upstairs; to hold sacred; to worship
semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths
Nebuta Festival (in Aomori, August 2-7)
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
Aomori Nebuta Festival (August 2-7)
Sukkot; Succot; Feast of Tabernacles
festival in honor of Daikokuten
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
ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)
Kasuga Festival (held at Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara on March 13)
Iwashimizu Festival (Sept. 15 festival held at Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto)
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
Monte-Carlo Television Festival
minor festival (held in place of a larger festival that is not recurring every year)
traditional festival in Kiryū City, Saitama