tsû (traffic, pass through, commute)
ka (overdo, exceed, go beyond)
tsûka (passage)
gi (ceremony, rule, affair, case, a matter)
rei (salute, bow, ceremony, thanks)
girei (etiquette)

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❖ (rites of passage)
❖ Conducted when an individual encounters changes in rank, status, or space

shinsôsai – shintô funeral ritual

hatsu (first time, beginning, new)
miya (shintô, shrine, palace)
mai.ri (going, visiting, visit)

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❖ The first visit paid by a newborn child to its ujigami
❖ As the mother's period of taboo may not yet be over, the child is generally taken to the shrine by a female relative
❖ On the 32nd day after the birth of a boy, and the 33rd day after the birth of a girl
❖ Also called omiyamairi, miyamairi, hatsumiyamôde

o (honorable) – written with kanji or hiragana
miya (shintô, shrine, palace)
mai.ri (going, visiting, visit)

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miya (shintô, shrine, palace)
mai.ri (going, visiting, visit)

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hatsu (first time, beginning, new)
miya (shintô, shrine, palace)
môde (visit, pilgrmage)

shichi (seven)
go (five)
san (three)
matsuri (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ 7-5-3 festival
❖ After a ritual (kamioki) three year old boys and girls hair is allowed to grow long
❖ Five year old boys ritually put on their first hakama (hakamagi or hakamagi no gi)
❖ Seven year old girls ritually put on their first wide obi (obitoki or obitoki no gi)
❖ November 15

hakama (men's formal divided skirt)
-gi (doning, wearing)
no (possessive particle)
gi (ceremony)

kami (hair of head)
o.ki (leaving behind, keeping)

obi (sash, belt)
to.ki (untying, undoing)
no (possessive particle)
gi (ceremony)

sei (turn into, become, grow, reach)
jin (person)
shiki (ceremony, rite, function)

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❖ Coming-of-age ceremony (currently at 20 years)
❖ Also called genpuku

gen (beginning, origin)
puku | fuku (to obey, discharge, to serve)

sei (turn into, become, grow, reach)
jin (person)
no (possessive particle)
hi (day, sun)

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❖ Held in honor of all those who reached their twentieth birthday during the previous year
❖ Coming of age day, celebrated on January 15

shin (kami)
zen (before, in front of)
kek | ketsu (tie, bind, contract, join)
kon (marriage)

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❖ shintô wedding

yaku (unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster)
doshi | toshi (year)

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❖ (unlucky year, critical age)
❖ With a big chance of encountering misfortune or injuring one's health; one must be careful
❖ When men turn 25, 42 and 60, and women 19 and 33
❖ One's yakudoshi is measured by adding one to the actual age
❖ 42 for men and 33 for women are considered to be particularly bad years, and are called "great calamity"

kan (return)
reki (calendar)

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❖ One's "sixtieth" birthday, or alternately one's "sixty first" calendar year
❖ Traditionally in Japan, when a person was born they were said to be "one," and at every New Year's day thereafter turn a "year" older
❖ Based on the sixty year cycle of the 12 astrological animals and the 5 Daoist elements