子忌み

ねいみ

collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)

忌み

いみ

mourning, abstinence

子規忌

しきき

anniversary of Shiki Masaoka's death (September 19th)

物忌み

ものいみ ものいまい ぶっき

fasting, abstinence, confinement to one's house on an unlucky day

忌み日

いみび いみひ

unlucky day (according to astrology), (previously a) death anniversary, purification and fast day

忌み数

いみかず

unlucky number

忌み箸

いみばし

things prohibited by chopstick etiquette

忌み明け

いみあけ きあけ

end of mourning

忌み嫌う

いみきらう

to detest, to abhor, to loathe

忌み言葉

いみことば

taboo word

忌

き

mourning, mourning period

忌日

きにち きじつ

anniversary of a person's death (on which Buddhist commemorative rites, etc. are performed)

服忌

ぶっき ぶくき

mourning, period of mourning

遠忌

おんき えんき

13th or later anniversary of a death

忌避

きひ

evasion, shirking, avoidance

厭忌

hatred; dislike; abhorrence; detestation

忌む

いむ

to avoid, to refrain from, to shun

忌憚

きたん

reserve, modesty

嫌忌

けんき けんぎ

dislike, aversion