伊勢大神宮

いせだいじんぐう いせおおじんぐう

the Grand Shrines of Ise

伊勢参宮

Ise pilgrimage; pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrine

伊勢神道

いせしんとう

Ise Shinto (school of Shinto established the Watarai family priests of Ise Jingu's Outer Shrine)

伊勢

Ise (former province located in the major part of present-day Mie Prefecture and parts of Aichi and Gifu prefectures)

伊勢丹

いせたん

Isetan (department store)

伊勢講

いせこう

fraternal religious group formed by Ise Shrine worshippers

伊勢鯉

いせごい イセゴイ

striped mullet (Mugil cephalus)

神宮

じんぐう

high-status Shinto shrine with connection to imperial family, imperial Shinto shrine

伊勢参り

いせまいり

Ise pilgrimage

伊勢大廟

いせたいびょう いせおおびょう

the Grand Shrines of Ise

伊勢海老

いせえび いせエビ イセエビ

spiny lobster (esp. Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus)

伊勢防風

いせぼうふう

Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)

伊勢乞食

いせこじき

beggars at Ise Grand Shrine (expression used to deride stingy people from Ise)

伊勢物語

Tales of Ise

大神宮

だいじんぐう

the Grand Shrine at Ise

神宮寺

じんぐうじ

Buddhist temple within a Shinto shrine, temple attached to a shrine

神宮暦

じんぐうれき

calendar distributed by the Ise shrine

神宮教

じんぐうきょう

Jingu-kyo (sect of Shinto, dissolved in 1899)

伊勢花菖蒲

いせはなしょうぶ

Iris ensata, Ise Japanese iris