• 斎場さいじょう

  funeral hall

• 書斎しょさい

  study, library, den, home office, reading room

• 斎とき

  meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

• 斎日さいじつ

  fast day

• 斎戒さいかい

  purification

• 斎くいつく

  to worship, to enshrine

• 斎主さいしゅ

  master of religious ceremonies

• 斎部いみべ

  Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family)

• 斎院さいいん

  imperial princess who served as a priestess at Ise

• 斎行さいこう

  carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

• 斎堂さいどう

  dining hall at a Zen temple or monastery, refectory

• 斎服さいふく

  priestly vestments, esp. white silk robes worn at festivals

• 斎食さいじき

  morning meal (for priests, monks, etc.)

• 斎宮さいぐう

  unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine in place of the Emperor

• 斎王さいおう

  unmarried imperial princess serving at the Ise Grand Shrine or the Kamo Shrine in place of the Emperor

• 大斎たいさい

  Great Lent, Great Fast

• 小斎しょうさい

  abstinence (in Catholicism)

• 潔斎けっさい

  religious abstinence, purification

• 斎み垣いみがき

  shrine fence

• 揚げ斎あげどき

  last death anniversary for which there is a memorial service held (usu. the 32nd or 49th)

• 書斎人しょさいじん

  person who spends a lot of time in their study, armchair expert

• 御斎会ごさいえ

  imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)

• 三斎流さんさいりゅう

  Sansai school of tea ceremony

• 羅漢斎らかんさい

  Buddha's delight (vegetarian dish)

• 斎戒沐浴さいかいもくよく

  purification, washing

• 三歌斎経さんかさいけい

  Triodion, Lenten Triodion

• 精進潔斎しょうじんけっさい

  purifying oneself (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat

• 聊斎志異りょうさいしい

  Strange stories from a Chinese studio (by Pu Songling)

• 神宮奉斎会じんぐうほうさいかい

  Ise Shrine Offering Association (secular organization formed from Jingu-kyo in 1899; dissolved in 1946)

• 貧僧の重ね斎ひんそうのかさねどき

  good luck does not last, a poor priest's two memorial services (being so close in time the priest can only eat at one of them)

• 斎垣いがき

  fence around a shrine (or other sacred area)

• 書斎劇しょさいげき

  closet drama, lesedrama