festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
midsummer feast; summer solstice celebration; St John's day
festival; feast; carnival; matsuri
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata
Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)
first ceremonial offering of rice by newly enthroned Emperor
summer festival; summer matsuri
Buddha's birthday festival (April 8th); Vesak
(traditional) festival music
main festival; main day of a festival
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver
ceremony for the repose of a soul; ceremony to pray for the long life of the emperor, empress, crown prince, etc.
Aoi Festival (Kyoto, May 15); Aoi Matsuri
a day after the fair; (at a) stage when it's too late
Kanda Festival (held at Kanda Myōjin Shrine in Tokyo on May 15)
offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)
prayer service for a good crop
ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
winter festival; winter matsuri
Festival of the Ages (held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto on October 22); Jidai Festival
festival merrymaking; revelry
fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires); New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine; festival involving fire dedicated to the gods
spring festival; spring matsuri
autumn festival; fall festival; autumn matsuri
Hinamatsuri (March 3); Hina Matsuri; Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival
traditional festival on Iriomote Island (southern Okinawa)
to kill an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; to kill viciously; to victimize; to torment
Sannō Festival (Hie Shrine in Tokyo; June 15); Sannō Festival (Hie Shrine in Shiga; April 14)
Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)
Okinawan festival held in the honour of the sea gods (honor)
small festival held the night before the main festival; eve of a festival
semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths
shrine ritual held within the first two months of the year to forecast or pray for a successful harvest; seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
boat festival; festival with portable shrines carried on boats
(rocky) seashore party; seashore festival; celebration in honor of the dragon god by fishermen after a good haul
to set (someone) up (in a high position); to kick upstairs; to hold sacred; to worship; to flatter
Nebuta Festival (in Aomori, August 2-7)
Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray
Ainu bear-sacrifice festival; Iomante
Aomori Nebuta Festival (August 2-7)
Sukkot; Succot; Feast of Tabernacles
festival in honor of Daikokuten
shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)
Kasuga Festival (held at Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara on March 13)
Iwashimizu Festival (Sept. 15 festival held at Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto)
day-after festival; night-after festival; (smaller) festival held the day (or night) after the main festival
Scarecrow Festival; Kakashi Festival
Monte-Carlo Television Festival
minor festival (held in place of a larger festival that is not recurring every year)
traditional festival in Kiryū City, Saitama
Akita Kantō Festival (3-6 August)