式年

しきねん

Meanings

1. Noun year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th and 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter) See also: 式年祭 (しきねんさい).

Kanji

• 式 form. Read as シキ.
• 年 year. Read as ネン.

Words containing 式年

• 式年遷宮 (しきねんせんぐう) construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time
• 式年祭 (しきねんさい) imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)
• 式年遷宮祭 (しきねんせんぐうさい) fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)

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