noun:

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

noun:

• day of a ceremony or event

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy with a traditional cap for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服【げんぶく】・初冠【ういこうぶり】

noun:

• person in charge of crowning the boy at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism

noun:

• master of the tea ceremony
• person with eccentric tastes

noun:

• first tea ceremony of New Year

noun:

• hanging scroll in a tea-ceremony room

noun:

• ceremony to appease evil gods and the spirits of the dead

noun:

• signing ceremony (for a law, treaty, etc.)

noun:

• presentation ceremony

noun:

• ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)

noun:

• bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling

noun:

• framework raising ceremony

noun:

• weaning ceremony ➜ 御食い初め

noun:

• closing ceremony

noun:

• goods buried during the ground-breaking ceremony for a temple - Buddhism term

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• opening ceremony

noun:

• ceremony of tsuna-making - Sumo term ➜ 綱【つな】

noun:

• archery ceremony; ceremony related to archery

noun:

• ceremony of releasing captive animals

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• portable stove for boiling water to make tea used for the tea ceremony during the summer

noun:

• program of a ceremony; programme of a ceremony

noun:

• imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox ➜ 春分の日

noun:

• ceremony site

noun:

• ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)
• first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))