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• cake cutting ceremony - From English "cake cut"

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• ceremony hall (for weddings, funeral services, etc.)

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• ceremony for moving a deity to a new site - Shintō term ➜ 遷座【せんざ】・遷宮祭【せんぐうさい】

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• informal wedding ceremony ➜ 二次会

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• attestation (investiture) ceremony

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• tea ceremony performed with tables and chairs (instead of sitting on tatami)

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• offering ceremony held on the third day of the dog after the winter solstice - Buddhism term
• twelfth month of the lunisolar calendar
• year in the Buddhist order (after the completion of the first meditation retreat) ➜ 臈

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• traditional Japanese engagement ceremony; engagement party

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• salt-throwing ceremony before the sumo bout - Sumo term

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• grand ceremony

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• ceremony in which paper lanterns are floated down a river

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• annual religious ceremony that occurs in Tenmangu where worshippers come to exchange their wooden bullfinch birds ➜ 天満宮

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• entrance ceremony (when students enter a dormitory)

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• tree-planting ceremony; Arbor Day

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• imperial or state ceremony

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• (company's) initiation or welcoming ceremony

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• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

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• year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter) ➜ 式年祭

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• ceremony to celebrate crossing the equator

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• groundbreaking or cornerstone-laying ceremony

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• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where one person beats a fruit tree (usu. persimmon tree) with a pole while threatening to cut it down if it does not provide a plentiful harvest, with another person responding "I will, I will" for the tree ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

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• celebratory ceremony; celebration

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• baptism-like ceremony performed by the buddhas on a bodhisattva who attains buddhahood - Buddhism term
• baptism-like ceremony for conferring onto someone precepts, a mystic teaching, etc. (in esoteric Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• pouring water onto a gravestone - Buddhism term
• teaching esoteric techniques, compositions, etc. (in Japanese poetry or music)

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• ceremony held in honor (honour) of Bodhidharma (October 5th)

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