斎

Meaning

斎 centers on ritual purity and dedicated spaces: purification, worship, and a room set apart for such practices. The Buddhist food sense is a specific application of purified offerings, while 'avoid' and 'alike' are less common extensions of the idea of setting things apart or making them uniform.

• 斎とき

  meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

• 書斎しょさい
  N3

  study; library; den; home office; reading room

• 斎場さいじょう

  funeral hall

• 斎宮さいぐう

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

• 三斎流さんさいりゅう

  Sansai school of tea ceremony

• 三歌斎経さんかさいけい

  Triodion; Lenten Triodion

• 大斎たいさい

  Great Lent; Great Fast

• 小斎しょうさい

  abstinence (in Catholicism)

• 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)

• 揚げ斎あげどき

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

• 斎くいつく

  to worship; to enshrine

• 斎み垣いみがき

  shrine fence

• 斎主さいしゅ

  master of religious ceremonies

• 斎垣いがき

  fence around a shrine (or other sacred area)

• 斎堂さいどう

  dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery; refectory

• 斎戒さいかい

  purification

• 斎戒沐浴さいかいもくよく

  purification; washing

• 斎日さいじつ

  fast day

• 斎服さいふく

  priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals

• 斎王さいおう

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

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