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English: However, some local governments have begun their own control system of appellation of origin, such as Nagano Appellation Control of Nagano Prefecture and Wine Domain of Origin Certification Regulation of Koshu City, Yamanashi Prefecture.
Japanese: しかし、一部自治体で独自の原産地呼称管理制度が始まっており、長野県の長野県原産地呼称管理制度や、山梨県甲州市のワイン原産地認証条例などがある。
English: The term "aiuchi" means to hit or strike each other at the same time in kendo (Japanese fencing) and so on.
Japanese: 相打ち（相討ち、相撃ち、あいうち）とは、剣道などで、双方が同時に相手を打突すること。
English: Some swordplay schools regard aiuchi as their innermost secret, and such tendency was strong especially in the latter of the Edo period.
Japanese: 剣術流派によっては、相打ちを極意とするところもあり、こうした傾向は江戸時代後期では特に強い。
English: Also, masters of Nippon Kenpo (a Japanese martial art) regard aiuch as an important factor (as one of mental attitudes).
Japanese: また、日本拳法でも達人が相打ちを重要視している（心構えの一つとして）。
English: As the Japanese proverb "let your opponent slash your skin to cut off his flesh, and let him cut your bone to break his bone marrow" (you should be prepared to sacrifice your own body so that you can defeat your opponent) describes, the idea that the fencer himself or herself should win and survive is always behind the concept of aiuchi in swordsmanship schools.
Japanese: 皮を斬らせて肉を断つ～骨を斬らせて髄を断つとあるように、剣術流派における相打ちの概念とは、自分が勝って生き残る事が前提である。
English: Some cases which are actually not aiuchi appear to be aiuchi (which means aiuchi has something similar to a cross-counter in boxing).
Japanese: 相打ちに見えるようで、相打ちではない場合もある（ボクシングのクロスカウンターに似た側面がある）。
English: It is said this is because there is always a slight difference in ability between fencers or fighters even if they are called a master.
Japanese: これはどのような達人同士であってもわずかに実力差が生じる為とされる。
English: The story about Mitsutoshi YAGYU is one actual example of that, and the movie "Shichinin no Samurai" (Seven Samurai) also quotes this story.
Japanese: 事例としては柳生三厳の逸話であり、映画『七人の侍古典からの引用』にも引用されている。
English: There is a legend that an archery master and a gun master killed each other due to aiuchi in the Sengoku period (the period of Warring States).
Japanese: 戦国時代(日本)、弓矢の達人と鉄砲の達人が相撃ち死したと言う伝承がある。
English: One story about a duel in the Edo period says that since both fighters bled too much to survive due to a long fight, they bravely killed each other by stabbing the opponent's throat at the same time by mutual agreement (this way of thinking was the same as kenka-ryoseibai [where there is a quarrel, both parties are to be punished], and people had intentions and considerations that both would not leave any feelings of regret or resentment).
Japanese: 江戸時代の決闘の話の一つに、闘いが長引き、両者とももう助からないほど流血した為、互いの同意で、潔く同時に喉を突き、相打ち死した（喧嘩両成敗と感覚は同じであり、互いに後悔や遺恨の念が残らない意図・配慮がある）。
English: Aiuchi is one of the favorable scenes in Western mythology and folklore (such as Beowulf), and creative works such as monster movies and cartoons.
Japanese: 西洋の神話・伝説（ベオウルフ等）、モンスター映画や漫画と言った創作物では相討ちは好まれる演出の一つ。
English: The Japanese term "matsuri" (festival, written as 祭 or 祭り) refers to ceremonies or Shinto rituals worshipping Shinreikon (the spirit of God).
Japanese: 祭（まつり）もしくは祭り（まつ-り）とは、神霊魂などを祀る儀式や神事のこと。
English: However, events irrelevant to ceremonies worshipping divine spirits and so on are sometimes called 'matsuri' at present.
Japanese: ただし、現在では神霊などを祀る儀式と関わりのない催事を「祭」と呼ぶ場合もある。
English: Japanese ancient matsuri has a long history and is traditional, and when Japanese matsuri is introduced in English, the term 'festival' is used as a translated word.
Japanese: 日本古来の祭は、歴史が長く伝統的であるが、日本の祭について英語で紹介する場合「フェスティバル」が訳語として用いられる。
English: The ancient word, 'matsuri' or 'matsuru' (both means worship) in Japanese, came first, and thereafter, due to inflow of Chinese characters, characters such as '祭り,' '奉り' (dedication), '祀り' (worship), '政り' (ruling), '纏り' (organizing) and so on were allocated.
Japanese: 「まつり」や「まつる」という古語が先であり、その後、漢字の流入により「祭り」・「奉り」・「祀り」・「政り」・「纏り」などの文字が充てられた。
English: The Japanese term 'matsuri' (祀り) refers to a prayer for gods and Mikoto (personal god), or its ceremony.
Japanese: 「祀り」は、神・尊（みこと）に祈ること、またはその儀式を指すものである。
English: This is because a worship leads to a prayer, and a worship refers to 'a prayer' or 'fortune-telling as a result of communication with a god' which is conducted by Shinto priesthood or a person subject to it (such as fukuotoko [the luckiest man], fukumusume [Good fortune girls], or arrow picker of Yumiya [bow and arrow]), and is so called a worship as an essence of 'Shrine Shinto.'
Japanese: これは祀りが、祈りに通じることから神職やそれに順ずる者（福男・福娘や弓矢の矢取り）などが行う「祈祷」や「神との交信の結果としての占い」などどであり、いわゆる「神社神道」の本質としての祀りでもある。
English: This matsuri refers to Miko no mai (shrine maidens dancing) such as Kagura (sacred music and dancing performed at shrines) and so on, or acrobatics and shishimai (lion dance) such as Daikagura (Street performances of a lion dance and jugglery) and so on, and a festival in honor of Ebisu and so on is popularized broadly.
Japanese: この祀りは神楽（かぐら）などの巫女の舞や太神楽などの曲芸や獅子舞などであり、広く親しまれるものとして恵比寿講などがある。
English: It also originated from Japanese folk beliefs such as the Ancient Shinto and so on, and in ancient times, it was called Kannagi referring to prayer 'so as to prevent spirits or deity dwelling there from becoming violent gods.'
Japanese: その起源は古神道などの日本の民間信仰にもあり、古くは神和ぎ（かんなぎ）といい「そこに宿る魂や命が、荒ぶる神にならぬよう」にと祈ることである。
English: Such prayer led to an establishment of Doso-jin (a god who prevents evil spirits from coming), Jizo (guardian deity of children), hokora (a small shrine) or mound as a memorial tower, or to praying for daily gratitude with one's palms together, and it is the same to offer a prayer and make a wish at shrines of Shrine Shinto.
Japanese: それらが、道祖神や地蔵や祠や塚や供養塔としての建立や、手を合わせ日々の感謝を祈ることであり、また神社神道の神社にて祈願祈念することも同様である。
English: In the meaning of Chinese character, the term 'matsuri' (祭) refers to a funeral ceremony in the countries which use Chinese characters, and in present-day Japan, the term 'matsuri' (祭り) has a meaning in contradiction to that in China, but, when focusing on the comfort, this term has the same meaning in essentials.
Japanese: 「祭」は漢字の意味において中華文明圏では、葬儀のことであり、現在の日本と中国では祭りは正反対の意味と捉えられているが、慰霊という点に着眼すれば本質的な部分では同じ意味でもある。
English: As an ancestor worship, one of the essences of Ancient Shinto, which is passed down to the present day through syncretization with Buddhism (syncretization of Shinto with Buddhism), the Obon festival (a Festival of the Dead or Buddhist All Souls' Day) is named (as a pure Buddhist event, the Urabon festival [a Festival of the Dead or Buddhist All Souls' day] worshiping the Buddha is held in the same period), and a dictionary explains that it is a festival for ancestor worship.
Japanese: 古神道の本質の一つでもある先祖崇拝が、仏教と習合（神仏習合）して現在に伝わるものとして、お盆（純粋な仏教行事としては釈迦を奉る盂蘭盆があり、同時期におこなわれる）があり、辞書の説明では先祖崇拝の祭りと記載されている。
English: Matsuri called whaling festival are held all over Japan in order to comfort whales dying by whale piking (whaling).
Japanese: 鯨祭りといわれる祭りが、日本各地の津々浦々で行われているが、それらは、鯨突き（捕鯨）によって命を落としたクジラを慰霊するための祭りである。
English: This term also means presentation, to present, to respect and so on, and generally refers to acts conducted to humanized divinities (deities created in Japan which had human portraits and humane minds) in the Japanese Mythology, the Imperial Court and Court nobles.
Japanese: 献上や召し上げる・上に見るなどの意味もあり、一般的な捉え方として、日本神話の人格神（人の肖像と人と同じような心を持つ日本創世の神々）や朝廷や公家に対する行為をさす。
English: This means that it is 'a matsuri' containing a spirit of modesty for 'Mikoto' whose essence existed in the Imperial Household Shinto although many of Sai no kami (guardian deity) in the Shrine Shinto were humanized divinities.
Japanese: これは、神社神道の賽神の多くが人格神でもあるが、皇室神道に本質がある「尊（みこと）」に対する謙譲の精神を内包した「まつり」である。
English: Its origin goes back to the Ancient Shinto worshipping the nature, and as described in Umisachihiko and Yamasachihiko of the Japanese Mythology, fish hooks (grains and fish hooks were categorized in the same concept in ancient times), bow and arrows were called Sachi which referred to sacred things obtained by fishing and hunting (catches, tools and sacred weapons) 'offered' to a deity as altarage (seafood and mountain vegetables).
Japanese: その起源は、自然崇拝である古神道にまで遡り、日本神話の海幸彦と山幸彦にあるように釣針（古くは銛も釣針も一つの概念であった）や弓矢は、幸（さち）といい神に供物（海の幸山の幸）を「奉げる」神聖な漁り（いさり）・狩り（かり）の得物（えもの・道具や神聖な武器）であった。
English: From ancient times, fishermen and hunters returned part of their catches to the land and the sea as a quota of deities when they obtained catches.
Japanese: 古くから漁師や猟師は、獲物（えもの）を獲る（える）と神々の取り分として、大地や海にその収穫の一部を還した。
English: Not only fishermen and hunters, but also those who make a living from agriculture, forestry, or fishery, as well as those engaged in present-day "sacred callings" such as the brewing of sake or soy products such as soy sauce return part of their "catch" at the 'Omatsuri' (festivals) held in each of Japan's regions.
Japanese: このような行いは、漁師や猟師だけに限らず、その他の農林水産に係わる生業（なりわい）から、現在の醸造や酒造など職業としての神事や、各地域の「おまつり」にもある。
English: In Jichinsai (ground-breaking ceremony) and Jotoshiki (the roof-raying ceremony), omiki (sacred wine or sake) or okome (sacred rice) is also returned to the ground.
Japanese: 地鎮祭や上棟式でも御神酒（おみき）や御米（おこめ）が大地に還される。
English: According to the beliefs of ancient Japanese society, which followed what is known as "ancient Shinto," someone who conducted religious services ("matsuri" in Japanese) was essentially the same as someone who was engaged in politics (also "matsuri" in Japanese); this was a case of what is called saisei itchi (the unity of shrine, temple and state; in other words, theocracy), and this led to politics occasionally being called matsurigoto (a word that can be used to refer both to government and worship) in Japan.
Japanese: 「政り」については、日本は古代からの信仰や社会である、いわゆる古神道おいて、祭祀を司る者（まつり）と政治を司る者（まつり）は、同じ意味であり、この二つの「まつり」が一致した祭政一致といわれるものであったため、政治のことを政（まつりごと）とも呼んだ。
English: It is said that in the ancient times, Himiko who was also a shrine maiden or shaman conducting rites and festivals controlled the administration by prayer or fortune-telling.
Japanese: 古くは卑弥呼なども祭礼を司る巫女や祈祷師であり、祈祷や占いによって執政したといわれる。
English: In the Heian period, the Shinto priesthood, who adopted Inyo (also referred as Onmyo) gogyo shiso (Yin-Yang Wu-Zing Idea) of Taoism and obtained the idea of Onmyodo (way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of five elements) and the position of Onmyoji (Master of Ying yang), controlled the administration with a strong power as a bureaucrat.
Japanese: 平安時代には神職が道教の陰陽五行思想を取り込み陰陽道と陰陽師という思想と役職を得て官僚として大きな勢力を持ち執政した。
English: Such unity of politics and religion was not limited to the central government, however; in the provinces, towns and villages of Japan, festivals were held to determine whether the area in question could expect to enjoy good fortune or to conduct construction work so as to raise funds for 'autonomous matsurigoto' and, based on the results of the fortune telling, to determine when to start social infrastructure work and provide guidance for the administration.
Japanese: またこうした政と祭りに一致は中央政府に限らず、地方や町や集落でも、その年の吉凶を占う祭りや、普請としての祭りが行われ、「自治としての政」に対し資金調達や、吉凶の結果による社会基盤の実施の時期の決定や執政の指針とした。
English: Since it was called a primitive religion, shamanism, animism and so on, and the target of its belief extended to shinrabansho (all things in nature), it is difficult to define matsuri which is also the action.
Japanese: 原始宗教やシャーマニズム・アニミズムなどと呼ばれ、その信仰の対象は森羅万象に及ぶため、その行為でもある祭りを定義付けることは困難である。
English: It was also the essence of Japanese culture to enjoy gods (many deities such as guest deities, Tsukumogami [divine spirit that resided in an extremely old tool or creature], and so on), Mikoto, spirit, deities, departed soul and soul without defining or discriminating against them.
Japanese: また、神（客神や九十九神などいろいろ）・尊・魂・命・霊御・霊を定義したり分け隔てることなく享受してきたのも日本の文化の本質でもある。
English: For example, a grand sumo tournament was originally a matsuri for dedication as the Imperial Household Shinto, and was also the Shinto ritual.
Japanese: 例えば大相撲も本来は皇室神道としての奉納の祭りであり、神事でもあった。
English: However, due to lessened interest in the religion, 'being a matsuri as a Shinto ritual or rite and festival' is sometimes forgotten like a grand sumo tournament, and only cheerful events associated with rites and festivals are sometimes recognized as 'matsuri,' and therefore, cheerful events which were originally held independently of rites and festivals were called 'matsuri' in some cases.
Japanese: しかし、宗教への関心の薄れなどから、大相撲のように「神事や祭礼としての祭りである」ことが忘れられたり、祭祀に伴う賑やかな行事の方のみについて「祭」と認識される場合もあり、元から祭祀と関係なく行われる賑やかな催事、イベントについて「祭」と呼ばれることもある。
English: The participation of individuals in such ceremonies was called 'festival,' and a prayer for good luck charm such as Jichinsai, Doll's Festival, Setsubun (the traditional end of winter) and so on is equivalent to it even now.
Japanese: また、個人がそういった儀式に参加することも「まつり」であり、現在でも地鎮祭、ひな祭りや節分などの招福祈願がそれにあたる。
English: At the time of rites and festivals are held, various things including altarage, acts and so on were presented to the divine spirit, and a ceremony was held.
Japanese: また、祭祀の際には、神霊に対して供物や行為等、様々なものが奉げられ、儀式が行われる。
English: Its scale was big, and the whole of event held across the region is sometimes called 'matsuri.'
Japanese: その規模が大きく、地域を挙げて行われているような行事の全体を指して「祭」と呼ぶこともある。
English: Since various kinds of 'matsuri' are held in various regions, it is difficult to tell that a matsuri in some region indicates which one in which region.
Japanese: 「祭」は様々な種類のものが各地で行われているため、ある地域で祭と言っても、どこのどの祭を指しているのか判断しにくい。
English: In this case, the matsuri is often called by combining the name of region where the matsuri is held, details of event held in the rite and festival, and name of attraction.
Japanese: このような場合、その祭が行われる地域名と、祭礼の行事の内容や、出し物の名前を指す名称を、組み合わせた名前で呼ばれることが多い。
English: However, in some region where the matsuri is held, it is called by abbreviating its official name, and a simplified common name is sometimes used by attaching an honorary term or term of endearment such as 'XX san' (also referred as O-XX san) or 'XX sama' (also referred as O-XX sama) to the name of temple or shrine where the matsuri is held.
Japanese: ただし、その祭の行われる地域の中では、正式な名称を短略化して呼ぶことも多く、時としては、行われる寺社などの名称に「（お）○○さん」または「（お）○○様」などの敬称・愛称をつけ、簡略化した祭りの通り名もある。
English: Temaematsuri, however, means to get your fishing line tangled with itself, not with that of another angler.
Japanese: 他人の糸、仕掛けに関係なく自分自身の糸、仕掛けがからまってしまう事を手前祭りという
English: There was expressions likening a sexual activity between a man and woman to 'matsuri' in a phrase of Joruri (dramatic narrative chanted to a shamisen accompaniment) and in a book of zappai (playful literature originating from haiku [a Japanese poem in seventeen syllables having a 5-7-5 syllabic form and traditionally containing a reference to the seasons]) (haiku collected in the streets) called yanagidaru (box-shaped, lacquered liquor cask) (written as 柳樽 and also as 柳多留 in Chinese characters) in the Edo period.
Japanese: 江戸時代の浄瑠璃の一節や柳樽（やなぎだると読み、柳多留とも表記する）という雑俳（巷から集めた俳句）の書籍のなかに「祭り」を男女の性行為の例えとして用いている表現がある。
English: The Ancient Shinto also had a belief called having babies belief, and it is said that the sexual activity came to be called 'matsuri' because having babies was an occasion of birth of new ujiko (shrine parishioner).
Japanese: また古神道においては、子宝・子作り信仰と言われるものがあり、子作りは、新しい氏子の誕生の場であるところから、性行為を「祭り」と言うようになったともいわれる。
English: The Ancient Shinto had a vision of world, Tokoyo (written as 常世 in Chinese characters, which means heaven) and Utsushiyo (the actual world), and Tokoyo referred to a sacred area or the kingdom of God.
Japanese: 古神道には、常世（とこよ）と現世（うつしよ）という世界観があり、常世は神域や神の国をあらわす。
English: According to one theory, the idea was that Tokoyo referred to tokoyo (written as 床世 in Chinese characters; 床 also means sexual activities), and the sexual activity was a sacred one conducted in the sacred area (or inviting people to the sacred area).
Japanese: 一説には常世は床世（床は性行為の意味もある）であり、性行為は神域で行われる（若しくは神域へ誘う）神聖なものとする考え方がある。
English: A idiom, 'omatsuri sawagi' (festivity), generated from a cheerful atmosphere of festival, is an expression of the states something cheerful, or hustle and bustle, kenkengakugaku (clamorous censure) and so on.
Japanese: 祭の賑やかな様子から、「お祭り騒ぎ」という慣用句が生まれ、何かが賑やかな状態や、喧騒や喧々諤々などの状態になっているのを例えてた態様表現がある。
English: The term 'matsuri' (also referred as omatsuri) used as an Internet slang refers to a situation that a certain thread is extraordinarily sensational in some electronic bulletin board, and a flow is faster than usual.
Japanese: インターネットスラングの「祭り」は一部の電子掲示板で、特定のスレッドが異常な盛り上がりを見せ、流れが通常よりも速くなっている状態を（お）祭りという。
English: The term 'matsuri' as an Internet slang has another meaning of blog flaming (terminology of the Internet), and calumniation, crimination and criticism are often given to scandals and improper words by a certain organization or individual.
Japanese: その他のインターネットスラングとしての「祭り」はブログ炎上(ネット用語)といわれるものがあり、特定の団体や個人による不祥事や不穏当発言などに対する、中傷や非難や批判が多い。
English: This is an act of malicious nuisance called Internet bulling (to be picked on), or an exposure of uncertainty over or criticism of the society, and also refers to a situation that an expansion and enlargement of opinions or discussions conducted in various Internet sites by routs who act in concert with it or follow it blindly, or people having own opinions, develop to the state called so-called 'matsuri' on the Internet.
Japanese: これは、ネットいじめ（祭り上げられる）といった悪意の迷惑行為、または社会に対する不安や批判などの発露であり、それに呼応したり尻馬に乗るなどの野次馬や、一過言を持つ人々がインターネット上の様々な場所で、意見や議論を拡散・増大させ、いわゆるネット上の「祭り」といわれる状態に更になっていく様をいう。
English: Rites and festivals are held in various forms across the world, but, a primitive matsuri is considered to have been based on one belief.
Japanese: 祭礼の形は世界各地で多様な形を示すが、原初の祭は一つの信仰に基づいていたと考えられる。
English: More specifically, it was a gratitude or prayer for productiveness, and it was analyzed through a god for death and regeneration of life in "Kinshihen" (The Golden Bough) (A Study in Magic and Religion: Wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion) written by James Frazer.
Japanese: すなわち豊穣への感謝・祈りでありジェームズ・フレイザーの『金枝篇』で生命の死と再生の神を通して考察された。
English: In an agrarian society, a harvest festival was an old one, but there were other festivals in the form of presenting animal sacrifices at the altar.
Japanese: 農耕社会においては収穫祭が古いものであるが他にも祭壇に動物の生贄を捧げる形式がある。
English: According to an example stated in "Kinshihen," there was a festival of making human-shaped bread or cookie (symbol of human body) using harvested cereals, and of dividing it, as one of very religious European customs before the Christianity.
Japanese: 『金枝篇』に載せられている例でいえばヨーロッパのキリスト教以前の色を濃く留めている風習の一つで、収穫した穀物を使い人形状のパンまたはクッキー（人体の象徴）を作り、分割する祭礼がある。
English: Rites and festivals are also seen in the world religion such as Christianity, Buddhism and so on, but, from the viewpoint of greatly depending on ceremonies and conventions rather than creeds, it is possible to say that the element of matsuri was especially pronounced in the racial religion.
Japanese: キリスト教・仏教などの世界宗教にも祭礼がみられるが、教義より儀式・慣習によるところが大きい点で祭の要素は本質的に民族宗教に顕著であるともいえる。
English: Like Easter under the Christianity, and Hari Raya Waisak held at the remains of Borobudur, there are festivals based on the world religion such as Christianity, Buddhism and so on.
Japanese: キリスト教の復活祭や、ボロブドゥール遺跡で行われているワイシャックのように、キリスト教・仏教などの世界宗教に基づく祭りもある。
English: In addition, like Halloween held by Anglo-Saxons in Anglo-Saxon countries, there are some festivals which are based on a belief before the world religion, or which are passed down in the form of syncretization in each place where the world religion was introduced.
Japanese: また、アングロ・サクソン人アングロ・サクソン諸国のハロウィーンなどのように、世界宗教以前の信仰に基づくものや、世界宗教が伝来した各地で習合した形で伝わっている事例もある。
English: Festivals also exist in the Christianity, and expressions of important festivals days such as Christmas, Easter and so on, and of priest, Eucharist ceremony and so on, a concept and words of 'matsuri' are seen.
Japanese: キリスト教においても祭が存在し、降誕祭・復活祭などの重要な祭日をはじめとして、司祭・聖体祭儀などの表現にも「祭」の概念・表現がみられる。
English: In the Bible translated into Japanese, a translation of 'matsuri' is given in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Japanese: 日本語訳聖書中においても、旧約聖書・新約聖書の両方に「祭」の翻訳がなされている。
English: However, the orally translated Bible of the Japan Bible Society has a description of 'matsuri' (祭) but the New Testament jointly translated has a description of 'matsuri' (祭り).
Japanese: ただし、日本聖書協会の口語訳聖書では「祭」と表記されているが、新共同訳聖書においては「祭り」と表記されている。
English: The Japan Orthodox Church, one of the members of Orthodox Church (Greek Orthodox Church), never avoids singularly using the term 'matsuri' or 'omatsuri' in the everyday language and in various works.
Japanese: 正教会（ギリシャ正教）の一員たる日本正教会は、日常用語においても各種著作物においても、「祭」（まつり）もしくは「お祭」（おまつり）との言葉を単独で使う事を全く避けない。
English: As shown by the terms, matsuri and Monoimi (to purify oneself by abstaining from certain foods), and a festival day and a holy day, a rhythm contrasting a joyful occasion (festival) with the time to get oneself ready for joyful occasion (Monoimi) is incorporated in the tradition of Orthodox Church and is a standard of everyday life, and when this is explained, the term 'matsuri' and its concept are often used.
Japanese: 祭と斎（ものいみ）、祭日（さいじつ）と斎日（ものいみび）というように、喜ばしい時（祭）と、自らを喜ばしい時に備える時（斎）とを対比させるリズムは正教会の伝統に組み込まれて日常生活の規範となっており、これを説明する際に「祭」の語・概念が多用される。
English: As representative examples, the Easter which is the biggest festival of Orthodox Church, and Omonoimi (Eastern Orthodox Church) which refers to a period to get oneself ready for the Easter are named.
Japanese: 代表的な例として、正教会で最大の祭である復活大祭と、それに自らを備える期間である大斎(東方正教会)（おおものいみ）がある。
English: A tradition of similar rhythm is not limited to the Orthodox Church, and is also seen in the Western Orthodox Church (Catholic Church, Anglican Church and so on) in the forms of the Easter, Omonoimi and so on.
Japanese: 同様のリズムの伝統は正教会に限らず、西方教会（カトリック教会・聖公会など）においても復活祭と大斎の形などにみられる。
English: However, the term 'matsuri' tends not to be used often by itself as an everyday language in the list of most Christian schools.
Japanese: しかしながら殆どのキリスト教諸教派の一覧においては、日常用語として「祭」（まつり）という言葉は単独ではあまり用いられない傾向がある。
English: Almost only the Japan Orthodox Church has a strong tendency to use the term 'matsuri' singularly, excluding some exceptions.
Japanese: 「祭」の語を単独で用いる傾向が強いのは一部の例外を除き、殆ど日本正教会のみとなっている。
English: The Shinto in ancient times, so-called Ancient Shinto, originally had elements of animism and shamanism, and was categorized into a racial religion before the world religion.
Japanese: 古代の神道いわゆる古神道は、もともとアニミズム・シャーマニズム的要素を持っており、世界宗教以前の民族宗教に分類される。
English: Matsuri passed down today also include folk beliefs in the sense of originating from native's, and many of them are categorized as Shinto-related's.
Japanese: 今日伝わっている祭も土着のものを起源とするという意味では民間信仰も交え、神道系に分類されるものが多い。
English: However, since a long time has passed after the introduction of Taoism, Buddhism and Esoteric Buddhism, some matsuri are influenced by the syncretization of Shinto with Buddhism and imported folkways.
Japanese: しかし、道教や仏教伝来から密教を含め長く経った為、神仏習合や渡来の習俗の影響を受けているものもある。
English: A ceremony modeling the story of Ama no Iwato (Cave of heaven) in the Japanese Mythology is known as the oldest one in Japan.
Japanese: 日本神話に出てくる天岩戸の話を摸した儀式などが日本で最も古いものとして知られている。
English: At present, many matsuri in the general sense are held under the initiative of shrines or temples, or by having settings in shrines or temples.
Japanese: 現在一般的な意味での祭は、神社や寺院をその主体または舞台として行われることが多い。
English: The purpose and meaning are diversified because some feasts are held for 'the productiveness of grain' for good harvests, and a prayer for good luck charm and prayer for warding off evil such as 'good catch and memorial service,' 'prosperous trade,' 'an attempt to secure protection from a plague,' 'state of perfect health,' 'safety of one's family,' 'peace and longevity,' 'harmonious marriage,' 'fertility and family prosperity,' 'ancestor worship,' 'abundance and joy to all people,' 'universal peace' and so on, some are held in appreciation for accomplishments of such prayers, some are held as a result of development of annual events such as Sekku and so on, or some are held to console spirits of great people.
Japanese: その目的や意義は、豊作の「五穀豊穣」を始め、「大漁追福」、「商売繁盛」、「疫病退散」、「無病息災」、「家内安全」、「安寧長寿」、「夫婦円満」、「子孫繁栄」、「祖先崇拝」、「豊楽万民」、「天下泰平」などを招福祈願、厄除祈念として行われるもの、またはそれらの成就に感謝して行われるもの、節句などの年中行事が発展して行われているもの、偉人の霊を慰めるために行われるものなど様々である。
English: In spite of the same purpose, and festival for enshrined deity, a style or variety of religious service, or a tradition differs greatly according to a province or region in many cases.
Japanese: また同じ目的、祭神の祭りであっても、祭祀の様式や趣向または伝統などが、地方・地域ごとに大きく異なる場合も多い。