斎

funeral hall

study

person who spends a lot of time in their study

fast day

Great Lent

Sansai school of tea ceremony

abstinence (in Catholicism)

master of religious ceremonies

Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family)

imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise

Triodion

carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine in place of the Emperor

closet drama

morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.)

imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)

unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine or the Kamo Shrine in place of the Emperor

Ise Shrine Offering Association (secular organization formed from Jingu-kyo in 1899; dissolved in 1946)

priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals

purification

dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery

meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

to worship

purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat

last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th)

shrine fence

fence around a shrine (or other sacred area)

good luck does not last

religious abstinence

Strange stories from a Chinese studio (by Pu Songling)

purification

Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish)