Kanji1 / 11
祭 kanji
ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
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Kun readings
まつるまつりまつり
Words with 祭
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —勅祭社shrine whose rituals are attended by an imperial envoy (who presents offerings)
- —式年祭imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)
- —上棟祭ridgepole-raising ceremony
- —遷宮祭transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another)
- —例大祭regularly held festival
- —皇霊祭equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors
- —豊年祭fertility festival; harvest festival
- —万霊祭All Souls' Day
- —祭壇画altarpiece
- —女祭司priestess
- —女司祭priestess
- —梅花祭plum blossom festival (held at Kitano Shrine on February 25)
- —遷座祭ceremony for moving a deity to a new site
- —パリ祭Bastille Day (July 14)
- —清明祭tomb sweeping festival (Okinawa, April 4 or 5)
- —還幸祭festival celebrating the return of a shintai to its main shrine
- —神幸祭festival celebrating the (temporary) transfer of a shintai away from its main shrine
- —神葬祭Shinto funeral ceremony
- —招魂祭memorial service (esp. for war dead)
- —公現祭Epiphany