[おたうえまつり, otauematsuri] (n) (1) shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest; (2) seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

ねぶた祭り

[ねぶたまつり, nebutamatsuri] (n) nighttime festival in Aomori

ふいご祭;ふいご祭り;鞴祭;鞴祭り

[ふいごまつり, fuigomatsuri] (n) Bellows Festival (festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray)

オリンピア祭

[オリンピアさい, orinpia sai] (n) (See オリンピック) Festival of Zeus (held at Olympia every four years from 776 BCE to 393 BCE)

キリスト降誕祭

[キリストこうたんさい, kirisuto koutansai] (n) Christmas

葵祭

[あおいまつり, aoimatsuri] (n) hollyhock festival

慰霊祭

[いれいさい, ireisai] (n) memorial service; (P)

陰祭り;陰祭

[かげまつり, kagematsuri] (n) (See 本祭り) minor festival (held when there is no regular festival)

映画祭

[えいがさい, eigasai] (n) film festival

音楽祭

[おんがくさい, ongakusai] (n) music festival

夏祭;夏祭り

[なつまつり, natsumatsuri] (n) summer festival

夏至祭

[げしさい, geshisai] (n) Midsummer; midsummer festivities; midsummer feast

火祭;火祭り

[ひまつり, himatsuri] (n) (1) fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires); (2) New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine; (3) festival involving fire dedicated to the gods

花祭;花祭り

[はなまつり, hanamatsuri] (n) Buddha's birthday festival (April 8th)

過越の祭;過越祭;過ぎ越しの祭;過越しの祭

[すぎこしのまつり;すぎこしまつり(過越祭), sugikoshinomatsuri ; sugikoshimatsuri ( ka etsu matsuri )] (n) Passover

学園祭

[がくえんさい, gakuensai] (n) school festival; campus festival

学校祭

[がっこうさい, gakkousai] (n) (See 学園祭) school festival

学祭

[がくさい, gakusai] (n) school festival

冠婚葬祭

[かんこんそうさい, kankonsousai] (n) (See 元服, 婚礼, 祭祀, 葬儀) important ceremonial occasions in family relationships; (P)

感謝祭

[かんしゃさい, kanshasai] (n) Thanksgiving (US, Canada)

奇祭

[きさい, kisai] (n) strange festival; festival with bizarre or unusual ritual

祈年祭

[きねんさい;としごいのまつり, kinensai ; toshigoinomatsuri] (n) prayer service for a good crop

記念祭

[きねんさい, kinensai] (n) anniversary; commemoration

祇園祭

[ぎおんまつり, gionmatsuri] (n) Gion Festival (in Kyoto during the month of July, with high point on the 17th)

供祭

[ぐさい, gusai] (n) offerings; offerings and worship

熊祭り;熊祭

[くままつり, kumamatsuri] (n) (See 熊送り) Ainu bear festival

芸術祭

[げいじゅつさい, geijutsusai] (n) art festival; (P)

血祭り

[ちまつり, chimatsuri] (n) bloodbath; victimization; victimisation

元始祭

[げんしさい, genshisai] (n) Shinto Festival of Origins (January 3rd)

五月祭

[ごがつさい, gogatsusai] (n) May Day; May Festival

五十年祭

[ごじゅうねんさい, gojuunensai] (n) jubilee; semicentennial

後の祭り(P);後の祭

[あとのまつり, atonomatsuri] (n) Too late!; (P)

後夜祭

[こうやさい, kouyasai] (n) (See 学園祭) an event held on the night after the last day of some festival (school festival) often bonfire & dancing

御祭り騒ぎ;お祭り騒ぎ

[おまつりさわぎ, omatsurisawagi] (n) festival merrymaking; revelry

港祭り

[みなとまつり, minatomatsuri] (n) port festival

皇霊祭

[こうれいさい, koureisai] (n) equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

降誕祭

[こうたんさい, koutansai] (n) (1) Christmas (authentic term now used within Japanese Christian denominations); (2) celebration of the birthday of a saint or great man

合祭

[ごうさい, gousai] (n, vs) enshrining together

合同慰霊祭

[ごうどういれいさい, goudouireisai] (n) joint service for the war dead

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後の祭り

[あとのまつり, atonomatsuri] Zu_Spaet!

慰霊祭

[いれいさい, ireisai] Gedenkfeier

文化祭

[ぶんかさい, bunkasai] Kulturfest (an Universitaeten)

百年祭