noun:

• hand-clapping ceremony (of reconciliation)

noun:

• initiation ceremony

noun:

• consecration ceremony

noun:

• final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 棟上げ式【むねあげしき】

noun:

• former grand champion's 60th birthday ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term ➜ 還暦横綱手数入り【かんれきよこづなでずいり】

noun / ~の noun / ~する noun:

• closing of a ceremony

noun:

• place of ceremony; public place

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand on ceremony
• to stiffen up (the nerves); to be tense

noun:

• retirement ceremony of a wrestler where his top-knot is cut - Sumo term

noun:

• throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building ➜ 餅まき

noun / ~する noun:

• ribbon cutting ceremony - From English "tape cut"

noun:

• kindergarten entrance ceremony

noun:

• secret ceremony; ritual; sanctum sanctorum

noun:

• former grand champion's 60th birthday ring-entering ceremony - Sumo term

noun:

• beans of the bean-scattering ceremony

noun:

• kindergarten graduation ceremony

noun:

• coming-of-age ceremony

noun:

• basket for tea ceremony instruments

noun:

• awarding ceremony

noun:

• kindergarten closing ceremony (at end of school year in March, before spring break)

noun:

• school opening ceremony

noun:

• weaning ceremony ➜ 食い初め

noun:

• traditional ceremony

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服

noun:

• noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility) ［ういかんむり］ ➜ 巻纓・垂纓