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Vocabulary (12)

• 羅漢斎

  らかんさい

  Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish)

• 斎部

  いみべ

  Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family)

• 神宮奉斎会

  じんぐうほうさいかい

  Ise Shrine Offering Association (secular organization formed from Jingu-kyo in 1899; dissolved in 1946)

• 三斎流

  さんさいりゅう

  Sansai school of tea ceremony

• 聊斎志異

  りょうさいしい

  Strange stories from a Chinese studio (by Pu Songling)

• 小斎

  しょうさい

  abstinence (in Catholicism)

• 斉行

  さいこう

  carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

• 斎日

  さいじつ

  fast day

• 忌垣

  いがき

  fence around a shrine

• 御斎会

  ごさいえ

  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)

• 斎院

  いつきのいん

  imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise

• 揚げ斎

  あげどき

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