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Words with 斎

Kanji 斎, meaning purification, appears in 39 Japanese vocabulary entries.

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いわい

congratulatory gift

書斎

しょさい

study

斎う

いわう

to present (a gift) in celebration

斎場

さいじょう

ceremony site

いみ

religious purification

忌み日

いみび

unlucky day (according to astrology)

忌む

いむ

to detest

忌垣

いがき

fence around a shrine

潔斎

けっさい

religious abstinence

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)

とき

meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

斎く

いつく

to worship

斎み垣

いみがき

shrine fence

斎院

いつきのいん

imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise

斎王

さいおう

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

斎屋

ゆや

building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)

斎戒

さいかい

purification

斎戒もく浴

さいかいもくよく

purification

斎宮

さいぐう

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

斎言

いわいごと

congratulatory words

斎主

さいしゅ

master of religious ceremonies

斎食

さいじき

food offering at a Buddhist ceremony

斎堂

さいどう

dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery

斎日

さいじつ

fast day

斎部

いみべ

Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family)

斎服

さいふく

priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals

三歌斎経

さんかさいけい

Triodion

三斎流

さんさいりゅう

Sansai school of tea ceremony

書斎人

しょさいじん

person who spends a lot of time in their study

小斎

しょうさい

abstinence (in Catholicism)

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)

精進潔斎

しょうじんけっさい

purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat

斉行

さいこう

carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

大斎

たいさい

Great Lent

貧僧の重ね斎

ひんそうのかさねどき

good luck does not last

揚げ斎

あげどき

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

羅漢斎

らかんさい

Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish)

聊斎志異

りょうさいしい

Strange stories from a Chinese studio (by Pu Songling)