お火焚;御火焚;御火焼 | [おひたき;おほたき, ohitaki ; ohotaki] (n) Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines) |
お田植え祭;お田植え祭り;御田植え祭り;御田植え祭 | [おたうえまつり, otauematsuri] (n) (1) shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; (2) seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine |
ハンドヘルド | [, handoherudo] (n) {comp} hand held |
共同居留地 | [きょうどうきょりゅうち, kyoudoukyoryuuchi] (n) (obsc) (See 共同租界) jointly held concession in China (e.g. Shanghai International Settlement) |
共同租界 | [きょうどうそかい, kyoudousokai] (n) (See 専管租界) jointly held concession in China (e.g. Shanghai International Settlement) |
初七日 | [しょなのか;しょなぬか, shonanoka ; shonanuka] (n) {Buddh} memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death |
十日夜 | [とおかんや;とおかや, tookanya ; tookaya] (n) Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest) |
取って置き | [とっておき, totteoki] (n) valued; the best; object set aside or held in reserve |
名寄せ;名寄 | [なよせ, nayose] (n,vs) (1) aggregation of names, addresses, etc.; (2) collation of accounts held by the same person (by financial institutions) |
大阪会議 | [おおさかかいぎ, oosakakaigi] (n) Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875) |
天気祭;天気祭り | [てんきまつり, tenkimatsuri] (n) ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain) |
子の日の遊び | [ねのひのあそび, nenohinoasobi] (n) collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the rat of the New Year) |
庭火;庭燎 | [にわび;ていりょう, niwabi ; teiryou] (n) (arch) garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds) |
式年 | [しきねん, shikinen] (n) (See 式年祭) year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter) |
引退相撲 | [いんたいずもう, intaizumou] (n) exhibition match held at sumo wrestler's retirement ceremony |
後夜祭 | [こうやさい, kouyasai] (n) (See 学園祭) an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing |
抱き癖 | [だきぐせ, dakiguse] (n) (baby which is) unhappy unless held |
春季皇霊祭 | [しゅんきこうれいさい, shunkikoureisai] (n) (See 春分の日) imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox |
比良八講 | [ひらはっこう, hirahakkou] (n) Buddhist service centred around the Lotus Sutra held over four days in Shiga Prefecture, starting from the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar |
火焚き;火焼き;火焚;火焼 | [ほたき, hotaki] (n) (See お火焚) Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines) |
田植え祭り;田植え祭 | [たうえまつり, tauematsuri] (n) (1) shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a succesful harvest; (2) seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine |
皇霊祭 | [こうれいさい, koureisai] (n) equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors |
神降ろし | [かみおろし, kamioroshi] (n,vs) (1) invoking a deity during a festival held in that deity's honor; (2) (See 巫女・みこ・2) medium's invocation of a deity to take possession of her (to receive his divine message or revelation) |
秋場所;あき場所 | [あきばしょ, akibasho] (n) autumn (fall) (September) sumo tournament, held in Tokyo |
秋季皇霊祭 | [しゅうきこうれいさい, shuukikoureisai] (n) (See 秋分の日) imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox |
紀元節 | [きげんせつ, kigensetsu] (n) (See 建国記念の日) Empire Day (February 11th; national holiday held from 1872 to 1948) |
臘 | [ろう, rou] (n) (1) {Buddh} offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice; (2) twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar; (3) (See 臈) year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) |
説明責任 | [せつめいせきにん, setsumeisekinin] (n) accountability; being held accountable |
達磨忌 | [だるまき, darumaki] (n) ceremony held in honor (honour) of Bodhidharma (October 5th) |
都踊り;都をどり(ik) | [みやこをどり(都をどり);みやこおどり(都踊り), miyakowodori ( miyako wodori ); miyakoodori ( miyako odori )] (n) dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district |
阿闍梨 | [あじゃり;あざり, ajari ; azari] (n) Buddhist priest or monk worthy of being held as a model (san |
非上場会社 | [ひじょうじょうがいしゃ, hijoujougaisha] (n) privately held company; Private company; unlisted company |
鳥追い;鳥追 | [とりおい, torioi] (n) (1) driving off birds; (2) procession held at the New Year to chase away the birds for the year, with children singing songs as the villagers walked from house to house; (3) female street musician who wore a braided hat and carried a shamisen; (4) street entertainer who appeared on New Year's eve and performed with a fan |