Contribution to Western understanding of the nature and manifestations of Shinto through the vast galaxy of historic festivals (matsuri) that are here categorized and analysed.
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NO MATTER WHAT DIFFICULTIES the analysis of matsuri poses to the analytical scholar, one can find in the matsuri universal features common to traditional rituals in general. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other matsuri, nenbutsu dances, many matsuri, village matsuri, most matsuri, such matsuri, local matsuri, dew dance, white paper strips, visiting deities, scapegoat animals, kagura dances, field deities, deity dances, hachiman shrine, human impurities, vengeful soul, noh theatre, stamping dance, noh stage, temporary shrine, ancestral deities, portable shrines, ancestral deity, secondary actor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Amida Buddha, Nihon Shoki, Tales of the Heike, Origuchi Shinobu, Sunday of April, Buddha Dainichi, Great Buddha, Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Usa Hachiman, Yanagita Kunio, Earth Solidifying, Emperor Kanmu, Ichinotani Futaba Gunki, Minister of the Right, Takeda Shingen, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Yamato Takeru New!
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NO MATTER WHAT DIFFICULTIES the analysis of matsuri poses to the analytical scholar, one can find in the matsuri universal features common to traditional rituals in general. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other matsuri, nenbutsu dances, many matsuri, village matsuri, most matsuri, such matsuri, local matsuri, dew dance, white paper strips, visiting deities, scapegoat animals, kagura dances, field deities, deity dances, hachiman shrine, human impurities, vengeful soul, noh theatre, stamping dance, noh stage, temporary shrine, ancestral deities, portable shrines, ancestral deity, secondary actor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Amida Buddha, Nihon Shoki, Tales of the Heike, Origuchi Shinobu, Sunday of April, Buddha Dainichi, Great Buddha, Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, Usa Hachiman, Yanagita Kunio, Earth Solidifying, Emperor Kanmu, Ichinotani Futaba Gunki, Minister of the Right, Takeda Shingen, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Yamato Takeru New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Anthropology and the Study of Religion (Studies in religion and society) by Robert L. Moore in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- History of Religions: Essays in Methodology by Mircea Eliade in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Tale of Genji (Tuttle Classics) by Murasaki Shikibu on page 9, and page 102
- History of Religions: China, Japan, Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, India, Persia, Rome, Greece (Volume 1) by George Foot Moore in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan (Japan Library Classics) by Carmen Blacker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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