Meanings

equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors

ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)

Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)

Sannō Festival (Hie Shrine in Tokyo; June 15)

fertility festival

All Souls' Day

altarpiece

minor festival (held in place of a larger festival that is not recurring every year)

main festival

Festival of Zeus (held at Olympia every four years from 776 BCE to 393 BCE)

ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)

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priestess

priestess

plum blossom festival (held at Kitano Shrine on February 25)

fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires)

Bellows Festival

international film festival

semi-naked festival

traditional festival on Iriomote Island (southern Okinawa)