祭

festival

festival

national holiday

art festival

funerals and ceremonial occasions

important ceremonial occasions in family relationships

memorial service

altar

grand festival

event held the night before another event

anniversary

priest

Hinamatsuri (March 3)

ritual

festival merrymaking

summer festival

Easter

ceremony for purifying a building site (before building commences)

enshrined deity

(religious) festival

jubilee

May Day

Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)

Jūrukunichī

university festival

centenary

imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)

main festival

a day after the fair

grand festival

festive mood

annual festival

school festival

Festival of the Ages (held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto on October 22)

Epiphany

Festival of Origins (January 3)

regularly held festival

annual festival

festival in honor of Daikokuten

school festival

church and state

Kanda Festival (held at Kanda Myōjin Shrine in Tokyo on May 15)

Kasuga Festival (held at Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara on March 13)

school festival

enshrining together

High Priest (of Israel)

ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)

(school) athletic festival

address to the gods

ceremony site

official who arranges festival and rites

rites

the Feast of Weeks

the Feast of Weeks

anniversary

to set (someone) up (in a high position)

Independence Day celebration

village festival

Sannō Festival (Hie Shrine in Tokyo; June 15)

priestess

priestess

unity of church and state

priestess

Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)

closing party

Star Festival (held in July or August)

film festival

shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest

Tenjin Festival (Osaka)

separation of church and state

fertility festival

offerings

school festival

regular festival

deacon (Catholic)

Pentecost

international film festival

Venice International Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires)

night festival

Labor Day

Iwashimizu Festival (Sept. 15 festival held at Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto)

chasuble

national holiday

Buddha's birthday festival (April 8th)

spring festival

priest

Ascension Day

great customer appreciation sale (held at year-end, on a company anniversary, etc.)

ceremony to celebrate crossing the equator

music festival

equipment used in a ritual

introit

tomb sweeping festival (Okinawa, April 4 or 5)

festival celebrating the (temporary) transfer of a shintai away from its main shrine

Shinto funeral ceremony

equipment used in rituals

festival

to enshrine

rites conducted by the emperor

Feast of Corpus Christi

Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3, the supposed day of his death)

Aomori Nebuta Festival (August 2-7)

prayer service for a good crop

kabuki performance in commemoration of Danjuro and Kikugoro

vestments worn by priests and attendants (Shinto, Christian, etc.)

festival tabi

festival for requests and expressions of thanks to the gods (Okinawa)

Passover

shrine ritual held within the first two months of the year to forecast or pray for a successful harvest

to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits

killing an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits

ceremony to purify the ring before the start of a tournament

Thanksgiving (Day)

ridgepole-raising ceremony

funerals and festivals

day-after festival

midsummer feast

donation made at a ritual

popular type of sushi bento, differing by regions

winter festival

plum blossom festival (held at Kitano Shrine on February 25)

Chichibu Festival

fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)

All Souls' Day

Festival of Zeus (held at Olympia every four years from 776 BCE to 393 BCE)

Bellows Festival

Bastille Day (July 14)

danjiri festival

festival

Nebuta Festival (in Aomori, August 2-7)

festival celebrating the return of a shintai to its main shrine

altarpiece

tree-planting ceremony

Christmas

Christmas

festivals

traditional festival on Iriomote Island (southern Okinawa)

father confessor

joint service for the war dead

harvest festival

gift at a memorial service

shrine whose rituals are attended by an imperial envoy (who presents offerings)

Ainu bear-sacrifice festival

cherry blossom festival

to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

Catholic rite (e.g. mass)

Ara (constellation)