to take measures;  to work out a plan;  to lecture;  to read aloud;  to confer
 no-holds-barred party;  free and easy gathering
 mutual financing association
 fete in honor of Ebisu (honour)
 reconciliation (between warring nations);  (making of) peace
 taking a lecture;  attending a class;  taking a course
 mutual financing association
 course (e.g. of lectures);  academic university unit (professor, lecturers, etc.)
 storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery;  story
 supplementary classes or lectures
 criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading);  review;  critique
 meeting (esp. of a mutual financing association)
 memorial services for the founder of the sect (esp. for Shinran in Shin Buddhism)
 substitute lecturing;  substitute lecturer
 taking turns reading, explaining, etc.;  round-table (discussion)
 fraternal religious group formed by Ise Shrine worshippers
 mutual financing association