(n) Independence Day celebration
(n) annual festival
(n) centenary
centennial celebration
(n) Easter
(n) culture festival
arts festival
(n) fertility festival
harvest festival
(n) Bon Festival
(n) All Souls' Day
(n) night festival
(n) regularly held festival
(n) annual festival
(n) Labor Day
May Day
(n) Girls' (dolls') Festival (March 3rd)
(n) important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
(P)
(n) jubilee
semicentennial
(n) Too late!
(P)
(v5m,vt) to place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her
(n) popular type of sushi bento, differing by regions
brand of sushi bento
(v1,vt) to set up (in high position)
to kick upstairs
(n) unity of church and state
theocracy
(n) separation of church and state
separation of religious ritual and government administration
(n) the Feast of Weeks
Pentecost
(n) offering of the year's new rice harvest (imperial festival, October 17)
(n) Iwashimizu Festival (Sept. 15 festival held at Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto)
(n) Iwashimizu Festival (Sept. 15 festival held at Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto)
(n) ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)
(n) (1) shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a succesful harvest
(2) seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine
(n) ceremony to purify the ring before the start of sumo tournament
(n) festival merrymaking
revelry
(n) (1) shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a succesful harvest
(2) seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine