祭神

さいじん さいしん

enshrined deity

神田

しんでん かみた

field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)

神嘗祭

かんなめさい かんにえのまつり しんじょうさい

offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)

天神祭

Tenjin Festival (Osaka)

海神祭

うんじゃみまつり

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

神葬祭

しんそうさい

Shinto funeral ceremony

神幸祭

しんこうさい

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

田の神

たのかみ

deity of rice fields and harvests

お田植え祭

おたうえまつり

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

田植え祭り

たうえまつり

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

神武天皇祭

じんむてんのうさい

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

吉田神道

よしだしんとう

Yoshida Shinto, fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements

祭

まつり

festival, feast

神田外語大学

かんだがいごだいがく

Kanda University of International Studies

燔祭

はんさい

burnt offering (i.e. religious animal sacrifice)

祭文

さいぶん さいもん

address to the gods, type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era

奇祭

きさい

strange festival, festival with bizarre or unusual ritual

祝祭

しゅくさい

festivals, feasts

祭服

さいふく

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