Basic Terms of Shinto


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Revision History
1958: First edition.
1985: Revised edition.
September 1997: First Web version based on the 1985 edition.
December 1998: Added notices on the search method.

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Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Foreword to Reprinted Edition
  • Contributors to the First Edition
  • Contents
  • Differences from Reprinted Edition
  • Glossary of Japanese Names, Terms and Titles in the Text

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