祝

national holiday

congratulation

celebration

congratulation

celebration (of a joyous occasion)

congratulatory address

celebration

to celebrate

congratulatory telegram

congratulations

congratulation

celebratory banquet

celebration

celebration held 50 days after the birth of a child

public holiday

private wedding

Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays

Annunciation Day

gift for close relatives or friends (given on the occasion of a family celebration)

congratulations on entering a school

noro

congratulatory words

festivities

celebrating in advance

(informal) celebration

advance celebration

victory celebration party

celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth)

longevity celebration for one's 88th year

consecration (of a person or thing, in Catholicism)

childbirth bonus (paid to an employee)

toast

celebration for the completion of a project

congratulatory gift

victory celebration

sad occasion (esp. a funeral)

buoyant market (on season-opening)

celebration of complete recovery from illness

one's saint's day

congratulations

festive dress

celebration

celebrating recovery from illness

to celebrate one's recovery from illness

national holiday

wedding present

housewarming gift

festive poem or song

housewarming (party)

ancient Chinese god of fire (or spring)

obi-tying ceremony designed to ensure safe birth of a child

All Saints Day

to congratulate

to congratulate

junior Shinto priest

birthday celebration

Day-of-the-Boar Festival

celebratory drink

longevity celebration (of age 42, 61, 70, 77, 80, 88, 90 or 99)

special envelope for monetary gifts

salute of guns

festivals

sacred wooden pole used in traditional Koshōgatsu ceremonies

celebration

celebration

ritual prayer

shrine maiden

traditional Koshōgatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility

accompaniment to a drink served at celebrations (such as New Year)

60th birthday celebration (usu. celebrated with a banquet-style meal while dressed in a red hat and vest symbolizing one's return to infancy)

benediction

festive chopsticks

coming of age ceremony where boys get a new loincloth and girls a new underskirt