meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th)

good luck does not last

study

the ancient imperial princesses serving at the Ise shrine

funeral hall ②ceremony site

purification

purification

master of religious ceremonies

fast day

priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals

religious abstinence

abstinence (in Catholicism)

purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat

morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.) ②food offering at a Buddhist ceremony

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)

carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

Great Lent

Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish)

dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery

Sansai school of tea ceremony

shrine fence

fence around a shrine

to worship