festival; feast; carnival
① 夏に害虫、風水害などの災厄や疾病などを祓うことを祈願して行われる祭り。② 夏季に行われる神社の祭り。
① 三月三日の上巳の節句に女の子の成長と幸福を祈って行う行事。雛壇に雛人形などを飾り、白酒、菱餅などを供える。春の季語。
killing an enemy soldier before the start of a battle to raise spirits; blood offering; killing violently; bloodbath; victimizing
midsummer feast; summer solstice celebration; St John's day
a day after the fair; (at a) stage when it's too late
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata; Festival of the Weaver
Star Festival (held in July or August); Tanabata
Buddha's birthday festival (April 8th); Vesak
① 秋に行われる神社の祭礼で秋の収穫を感謝して神に新穀を供えて行う祭り。
first ceremonial offering of rice by newly-enthroned Emperor
① 冬の祭りで立冬から立春にかけて行われる神社の神事祭礼。
fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires); New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine; festival involving fire dedicated to the gods
ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
① 春に行われる祭りの総称でその年の豊作を祈願する祈年祭。
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
village festival; autumn festival; harvest festival
main festival; main day of a festival
Festival of the Ages (held at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto on October 22); Jidai Festival
semi-naked festival; festival in which the participants go naked apart from loin-cloths
traditional festival on Iriomote Island (southern Okinawa)
small festival held the night before the main festival; eve of a festival
Nebuta Festival (in Aomori, August 2-7)
festival in honor of Daikokuten
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
(rocky) seashore party; seashore festival; celebration in honor of the dragon god by fishermen after a good haul
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
Sukkot; Succot; Feast of Tabernacles
danjiri festival; cart-pulling festival
the Feast of Weeks; Pentecost
ceremony to purify the ring before the start of a tournament
ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)
minor festival (held in place of a larger festival that is not recurring every year)
traditional festival in Kiryū City, Saitama
festival tabi; strong, rubber-soled footwear worn by festival participants
day-after festival; night-after festival; (smaller) festival held the day (or night) after the main festival