Meaning of 式年 in Japanese
Definition of 式年
- (n) year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)
Words related to 式年
- (n) construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time
- (n) imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)
- (n) fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
