noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

expression:

• as of the end of (today, this month, etc.); to make (today, etc.) the last (day) ➜ 声を限りに

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month) ➜ 開炉

noun:

• dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward) ➜ 夜明け

noun:

• karoshi line (official measure of excessive hours of overtime per month) ➜ 過労死

noun / ~する noun:

• varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term

noun:

• summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month) - Buddhism term

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

noun:

• (Nichiren Buddhism) memorial service for Nichiren (13th day of 10th month) ➜ 会式【えしき】

noun:

• west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore [literal]

noun:

• calf (before it is fattened or used for breeding, usu. referring to 6 to 12-month-olds)

noun:

• women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月

noun:

• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month)

noun:

• celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth)
• gift at the birth of a child; baby gift

noun:

• Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th) ➜ 祇園祭

noun:

• cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)

noun:

• wind blowing on the day of the Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (15th day of the 2nd month) - Buddhism term

noun:

• rite welcoming back the gods from Izumo Shrine (on the last day of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神送り

noun:

• rite seeing off the gods on their way to Izumo Shrine (held on the last night of the ninth lunar month and first night of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神迎え
• exorcism

noun:

• ten-night memorial service (6th to 15th days of the 10th month in the lunar calendar) - Buddhism term ➜ 十夜粥【じゅうやがゆ】

noun:

• summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month) ➜ 夏越しの祓

noun:

• mochi added to rice gruel (15th of the first month) - obscure term

noun:

• warm sake (formerly drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar to ward off illness)

noun:

• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month) - Buddhism term ➜ 涅槃会