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to celebrate; to congratulate; to observe (a festival)

to present (a gift) in celebration; to drink in celebration

to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.); to pray for

congratulation; congratulations; celebration; festival

congratulatory gift; present

study; library; den; home office; reading room

Common noun

mourning; abstinence

Common noun

taboo

Common noun

religious purification

Noun, used as a prefix

pure; holy

to avoid; to refrain from; to shun

忌む／諱む only

to detest

public bathhouse

building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)

meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

funeral hall

ceremony site

religious abstinence; purification

purification

master of religious ceremonies

to worship; to enshrine

fast day

abstinence (in Catholicism)

unlucky day (according to astrology); (previously a) death anniversary; purification and fast day

Christianity

Great Lent; Great Fast

dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery; refectory

Buddhism

morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.)

food offering at a Buddhist ceremony

Shinto

priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals

congratulatory words; prayer for happiness

carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

shrine fence

imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)

Buddhism

last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th)