matsuri (festival, feast, ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship, sacrifice or make offerings to one's ancestors)

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❖ Festivals celebrating and honoring the kami and ancestral spirits
❖ Also called omatsuri, oomatsuri, saishi

o (honorable) – written with kanji or hiragana
matsuri (festival, feast, ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship, sacrifice or make offerings to one's ancestors)

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oo (great, big, large)
matsuri (festival, feast, ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship, sacrifice or make offerings to one's ancestors)

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sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)
shi (enshrine, worship)

saishi shuzoku – Festival Practices

nenchu gyoji – Annual Events

tsûka girei – Rites of Passage

tama matsuri – Festivals for the Dead

ji matsuri – Ground Breaking Ceremonies