斎 - purification, Buddhist food, room

study; library; den; home office; reading room

funeral hall

imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise

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

Ise Shrine Offering Association (secular organization formed from Jingu-kyo in 1899; dissolved in 1946)

Triodion; Lenten Triodion

to worship; to enshrine

master of religious ceremonies

purification

fence around a shrine (or other sacred area)

priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals

Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family)