祭

まつり

festival, feast

官

つかさ かん

government service, the bureaucracy

官房長官

かんぼうちょうかん

Chief Cabinet Secretary

官官接待

かんかんせったい

bureaucrats entertaining bureaucrats using public funds

奇祭

きさい

strange festival, festival with bizarre or unusual ritual

燔祭

はんさい

burnt offering (i.e. religious animal sacrifice)

獺祭

だっさい だっ さい

arraying a number of reference books in order to compose poetry, literary composition crammed with maxims, ancient episodes, legends, etc.

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

合祭

ごうさい

enshrining together

助祭

じょさい

deacon (Catholic)

供祭

ぐさい きょうさい

offerings, offerings and worship

勅祭

ちょくさい

festival held by imperial order

祝祭

しゅくさい

festivals, feasts

喪祭

そうさい もさい

funerals and festivals

オリンピア祭

オリンピアさい

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

磯祭

いそまつり

(rocky) seashore party, seashore festival

祭る

まつる

to deify, to enshrine

祭日

さいじつ

national holiday, festival day

葵祭

あおいまつり

hollyhock festival