Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbpurification rite (esp. one held prior to a Shinto event)

Noungreat purification; purification rite performed twice a year, before daijōsai and after major disasters

Nounritual purification; cleansing of crimes, impurities, etc.

Nounpurification to invite good fortune

Nounpurification to cleanse one of sin

Nounpurification ritual

Nounexorcism rite; purification

Noungrand purification ceremony (so-called because it was overseen by the Nakatomi family)

Nounsummer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)

Nounsummer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Nounpurification ceremony held on the first day of the snake in the 3rd month of the lunar calendar