Ancient Japanese Rituals

ISBN-13: 9780710307507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 256 str.

Ernest Satow; Karl Florenz

Opis

Begins with a study of core Shinto rituals as revealed in ancient texts, which embody the deepest and oldest traditions of Shinto belief in divinity, national destiny and, above all, Japan's special favoured status as 'the country of the gods', beliefs that endure today behind the facade of Japan.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 *Reprinted from the Transaction of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Serier,. Vol. VII, Pt. II, pp. 95–126., Ernest Satow; Chapter 2 *Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Series, Vol. VII, Part IV, pp. 393–434., Ernest Satow; Chapter 3 *Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Series, Vol. IX, Pt. IT, pp. 183–211 (.Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9.), Ernest Satow; Chapter 4 *Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Series, Vol. XXVII, Pt. I, pp. 1–112; Chapter 5 *Revised by the author, 1882. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Series, Vol. III., Ernest Satow;

O autorze

Sir ERNEST SATOW (1843-1929) was a noted linguist and expert on Japan, where he was long resident and served as British Minister from 1895-1900. The late Dr. KARL FLORENZ was a distinguished German Japanologist.