Search: "式年です"

1. Every other year; Biennial

1. 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)

1. construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time

1. fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)

1. imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)

1. Probably every few years.; Likely a periodic event.

1. It was a ritual relocation of the palace.

1. It is not a ritual relocation of the palace.; It is not the periodic transfer of the palace.

1. It is not a ritual relocation of the palace.; It is not a periodic relocation of the palace.

1. Probably a relocation of the shrine every twenty years.