しきねん
Meanings
Noun
1. year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th and 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)
Pitch accent
きねん
Composed of
equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time
fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)