Words
Words with 斎
Kanji 斎, meaning purification, appears in 39 Japanese vocabulary entries.
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)
斎王
さいおう
unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine or the Kamo Shrine in place of the Emperor
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)