tai | dai (large, big)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Large (scale) shrine rites
❖ Shrine rites having to do with major festivals, divided into reisai, kinensai, niinamesai, shikinensai, chinzasai, senzasai, go-shisai, bunshisai, and rites based on special shrine traditions

bun (part, segment)
shi (small shrine)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Movement of a enshrined kami to another branch shrine

chin (tranquilize)
za (seat, cushion)
chinza (enshrinement)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Enshrinement of a kami

go.shi (cross over, move to)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Marking the deceased joining with ancestral spirits
❖ Held one year after the funeral rites

ki (pray, wish)
nen (year)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Celebrated annually on the fourth day of the second month to pray for a bountiful harvest
❖ All shrines receiving any form of official patronage, either imperial or provincial were required to perform kinensai

nii (new)
na.me (taste)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Ancient domestic rites are observed anually with the eleventh-month harvest festival, at which time ancestral tutelaries (ujigami or yakatsukami) were feted together with the kami of foodstuffs: uka-no-mitama and the hearth kami known as kamado-gami

rei (custom, precedent)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ The principle matsuri of any shrine
❖ Performed once or twice a year

sen (transition, move, change)
za (seat, cushion)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Relocation of a shrine and transfer of an object of worship
❖ A festival held for a building that is to be dismantled and rebuilt, or undergo major repairs
❖ Before construction begins, the kami is transferred to temporary quarters (karidono senzasai) – kari (temporary, interim) / dono (hall, palace, temple)
❖ And then returned when the permanent structure is completed (honden senzasai) – hon (main, true, real) / den (hall, palace, temple)

shiki (ceremony, rite, function)
nen (year)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Rites held annually
❖ All tasai, chûsai and shôsai
❖ Rites of this type are broadly divided between those held regularly at shrines and those held for the Imperial Ancestors at the palace; held in prescribed years

chû (middle, center)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Medium (scale) shrine rites
❖ Shrine rites having to do with medium-size festivals

shô (little, small)
sai (ritual, offer prayers, celebrate, deify, enshrine, worship)

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❖ Small (scale) shrine rites
❖ Shrine rites having to do with small-size festivals