Meanings

to worship

unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine in place of the Emperor

shrine fence

master of religious ceremonies

purification

fast day

funeral hall

meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

fence around a shrine (or other sacred area)

priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals

study

Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family)

religious abstinence

abstinence (in Catholicism)

purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat

morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.)

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)

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

carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

Great Lent