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Faith and customs — 信仰と風習

Gods and Buddhas, prayer, shrine visits, ceremonies, the yearly festivals, graves, funerals, luck and fortune-telling. Read each word aloud with its reading, then write it once on the line — in kana if you cannot yet write the kanji.

かみ noun

神 god, deity

ほとけ noun

仏 Buddha; the deceased

しんこう noun

信仰 faith, religious belief

いのる verb

祈る to pray, to wish

おがむ verb

拝む to pray to, to worship (with joined hands)

さんぱい noun

参拝 visiting a shrine or temple to pray

いわう verb

祝う to celebrate, to congratulate

ぎしき noun

儀式 ceremony, rite

ぎょうじ noun

行事 event, function (annual)

ふうしゅう noun

風習 custom, tradition

おおみそか noun

大晦日 New Year's Eve

はつもうで noun

初詣 first shrine visit of the year

せつぶん noun

節分 Setsubun (bean-throwing day, early February)

たなばた noun

七夕 Tanabata, the Star Festival (7 July)

おぼん noun

お盆 Obon, the summer festival of the dead

はか noun

墓 grave, tomb

そうしき noun

葬式 funeral

そなえる verb

供える to offer (to a god or the dead)

えんぎ noun

縁起 omen, luck

うらない noun

占い fortune-telling

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Vocabulary N3 · set 45 of 60 · 2 / 2 · recall

Name Date

Faith and customs — from memory

Cover page 1. Write the Japanese for each meaning (kana is fine), then write what each word in part 2 means. Page 1 is the answer key.

1 Write the Japanese

first shrine visit of the year

noun

custom, tradition

noun

Setsubun (bean-throwing day, early February)

noun

New Year's Eve

noun

event, function (annual)

noun

god, deity

noun

ceremony, rite

noun

to celebrate, to congratulate

verb

Tanabata, the Star Festival (7 July)

noun

to pray, to wish

verb

2 What does it mean?

仏

供える

縁起

占い

墓

お盆

信仰

葬式

拝む

参拝

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