Practice JLPTMeaning
節句 (せっく, sekku) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “seasonal festival”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
3 月 3日は 桃の 節句だ
March 3rd is the Peach Festival. (Also known as the Doll Festival.)
節句の神饌の一つ。
Tokobushi has traditionally been offered to gods at seasonal festivals.
菖蒲の節句ともいう。
The day is also called Shobu (Japanese iris in Japan) no sekku.
端午の節句にも用いられる。
They are also used to celebrate Boy's day.
節句の一つにも数えられる。
It is also counted among sekku (seasonal festivals).
五節句の一つであり、端午の節句とも呼ばれる。
It is one of the Gosekku (the five seasonal festivals) and is also called Tango no Sekku (a seasonal festival).
この 端午の 節句と 関係の 深いしょうぶは、 花は 美しくありません。
The iris deeply associated with the Boys' Festival does not have a beautiful flower.
月5日は古来から端午の節句として、男子の健やかな成長を願う行事が行われていた。
May 5th has been the Boys' Festival since ancient times, and events are held to wish for the healthy growth of boys.5
男雛と女雛を中心とする人形を飾り、桃の花を飾って、白酒(日本酒)などの飲食を楽しむ節句祭り。
Hina-matsuri is a seasonal festival to display dolls centering around the doll representing the emperor called obina and the doll representing the empress called mebina with peach flowers, enjoying eating and drinking shirozake (sweet white sake), for example.
怠け者の節句働き. He is an afternoon farmer.重陽の節句-9月9日。
Choyo no Sekku (Chrysanthemum Festival): September 9.
怠け者の節句働き. A lazy man will have to work on holidays.怠け者の節句働き。
In the evening the idle man begins to be busy.
この遊びである「雛あそび」が節句としての「雛祭り」へと変わったのは天正年間以降のことであり、この時代から三月の節句の祓に雛祭りを行うようになったと推測されている。
It was not until the Tensho era that this play 'Hina-asobi' was transformed into 'Hina-matsuri' as an event of the seasonal festival; thus, it is assumed that Hina-matsuri began to be held as purification during the seasonal festival of March from this era.