(written language) Happy New Year!

shrines and temples

(2channel slang) Alternative form of おまえら (omaera)

visiting Ise Shrine

(intransitive, humble) to go / (intransitive, humble) to come / (intransitive) to visit (typically a place of social or spiritual importance, such as a noble's house or a shrine)

New Year's pilgrimage to a shrine or temple in a favorable direction

visit to a grave; visiting a grave

the Chimera

ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death

visit (to a shrine, temple, grave, etc.)