Words
Words with 宮
Kanji 宮, meaning Shinto shrine, appears in 209 Japanese vocabulary entries.
式年遷宮
しきねんせんぐう
construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time
式年遷宮祭
しきねんせんぐうさい
fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
初宮参り
はつみやまいり
first visit of a child to the shrine of its tutelary deity (usu. when the child is about 30 days old)
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)
遷宮祭
せんぐうさい
transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another)
抜け参宮
ぬけさんぐう
pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrine without a travel permit or permission from one's parents or relatives (Edo period)