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Chichibu Festival

jubilee; semicentennial

funerals and festivals

Christianity

Epiphany

(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

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

tomb sweeping festival (Okinawa, April 4 or 5)

religious ceremony (to appease the gods)

port festival

danjiri festival; cart-pulling festival

equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

Sukkot; Succot; Feast of Tabernacles

Aomori Nebuta Festival (August 2-7)

All Souls' Day

imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)

enshrining together

gift at a memorial service

annual festival

shrine whose rituals are attended by an imperial envoy (who presents offerings)

minor festival (held in place of a larger festival that is not recurring every year)

traditional festival in Kiryū City, Saitama

day-after festival; night-after festival; (smaller) festival held the day (or night) after the main festival

Christianity

introit