Words using 斎

• 斎場 さいじょう — funeral hall
• 祝い いわい — congratulation
• 祝う いわう — to celebrate
• 書斎 しょさい — study
• 忌み いみ — mourning
• 忌む いむ — to avoid
• 斎 とき — meals exchanged by parishioners and priests
• 斎く いつく — to worship
• 斎み垣 いみがき — shrine fence
• 忌み日 いみび — unlucky day (according to astrology)
• 斎戒 さいかい — purification
• 斎戒沐浴 さいかいもくよく — purification
• 斎垣 いがき — fence around a shrine (or other sacred area)
• 斎宮 さいぐう — unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine in place of the Emperor
• 斎主 さいしゅ — master of religious ceremonies
• 斎日 さいじつ — fast day
• 斎服 さいふく — priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals
• 斎部 いみべ — Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family)
• 潔斎 けっさい — religious abstinence
• 湯屋 ゆや — public bathhouse
• 小斎 しょうさい — abstinence (in Catholicism)
• 精進潔斎 しょうじんけっさい — purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat
• 斎食 さいじき — morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.)
• 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)
• 祝い言 いわいごと — congratulatory words
• 揚げ斎 あげどき — last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th)
• 斎行 さいこう — carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)
• 大斎 たいさい — Great Lent
• これに懲りよ道才坊 これにこりよどうさいぼう — take it as a lesson learned
• 羅漢斎 らかんさい — Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish)
• 斎堂 さいどう — dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery
• 貧僧の重ね斎 ひんそうのかさねどき — good luck does not last
• 三斎流 さんさいりゅう — Sansai school of tea ceremony
• 斎院 さいいん — imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise
• 斎王 さいおう — unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine or the Kamo Shrine in place of the Emperor
• 書斎人 しょさいじん — person who spends a lot of time in their study
• 書斎劇 しょさいげき — closet drama
• 忌み物 いみもの — taboo object
• 聊斎志異 りょうさいしい — Strange stories from a Chinese studio (by Pu Songling)
• 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)