川かわ施せ餓が鬼き

noun

Buddhist river memorial service; offering to spirits of the drowned

A Buddhist ceremony, often held by a river, to console the spirits of those who died by drowning and to offer food to hungry ghosts. The term is specific to Japanese Buddhist practice.

• お盆ぼんに川かわ施せ餓が鬼きが営いとなまれた。

  A river segaki service was held during Obon.

• 川かわ施せ餓が鬼きは水すい難なん者しゃの供く養ようのために行おこなわれる。

  The kawa-segaki is performed to memorialize victims of drowning.