Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life

Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion 1
[cover]

HARADA Toshiaki
INOUE Nobutaka
MOGI Sakae
NAKAMAKI Hirochika
SONODA Minoru
YANAGAWA Keiichi

Translated by Norman Havens

Editorial Staff:
UEDA Kenji, Director
INOUE Nobutaka, Assistant professor
Norman Havens, Researcher

Originally published in 1988 by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.


Table of Contents

Preface
by INOUE Nobutaka
The Sensation of Matsuri
by YANAGAWA Keiichi
The Origin of Rites of Worship within the Local Community
by HARADA Toshiaki
Festival and Sacred Transgression
by SONODA Minoru
Divine Symbols in Japanese Festivals: The Ôgi Festival in Kurokawa
by NAKAMAKI Hirochika
Religious Space in the Village as Seen through Festival and Legend: An Example from Mukagata, Tenryû Village, Shimoina-Gun, Nagano Prefecture
by MOGI Sakae
Translator's Postscript: Matsuri in Japanese Religious Life
by Norman Havens

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