noun:

• Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

noun:

• aisle (in wedding ceremony) - From English "virgin road"

noun:

• waste-water container (tea ceremony); slop jar; slop basin

noun:

• preparing powdered tea (at a tea ceremony)

noun:

• last guest (tea ceremony); third guest of honour (honor); guest who sits in the seat furthest from the host and assists in various ways ➜ 詰め【つめ】・次客【じきゃく】・正客【しょうきゃく】

noun:

• scroll containing a single line of calligraphy, often of Zen content (usu. found in a tea-ceremony room or house)

noun:

• ash scoop (tea ceremony)

noun:

• container of fresh water for replenishing the kettle and rinsing bowls (tea ceremony)

noun:

• waste-water container (tea ceremony) ➜ 建水・水翻し【みずこぼし】

noun:

• waste-water container (tea ceremony)

noun:

• christening (ceremony)

noun:

• serving tea (esp. in tea ceremony) - polite language

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (in tea ceremony) ➜ 後の炭

noun:

• second adding of charcoal to the fire (tea ceremony) ➜ 後炭

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)

noun / ~する noun:

• unveiling (ceremony)

noun:

• first adding of charcoal to the fire (tea ceremony)

noun:

• wisteria ash (used in tea ceremony)

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usually February 3 or 4); holiday for end of winter (accompanied by a bean scattering ceremony)
• last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar) - original meaning

noun:

• accomplishments; taking lessons (dance, music, tea ceremony, flower arranging, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• rendezvous; meeting; assignation

noun:

• area where guests gather before the start of a tea ceremony
• waiting room - abbreviation ➜ 待合室【まちあいしつ】
• meeting place for assignations, drinking, etc. - archaism - abbreviation ➜ 待合茶屋【まちあいぢゃや】