Shinto : at the fountain-head of Japan / Jean Herbert ; with a preface by Yukitada Sasaki
1967, First Edition. London : Allen & Unwin. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #478547
Physical description: 578 p. Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE01; COPYRIGHT01; TITLE02; COPYRIGHT02; PREFACE; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: RELIGION; CHAPTER I: GENERALITIES; CHAPTER II: HISTORY AND MAIN SUBDIVISIONS OF SHINTÔ; CHAPTER III: METAPHYSICS, ETHICS, SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AND ÆSTHETICS; CHAPTER IV: TEMPLES; CHAPTER V: PRIESTS; CHAPTER VI: SYMBOLISM AND INDIVIDUAL WORSHIP; CHAPTER VII: COLLECTIVE WORSHIP AND FESTIVALS; CHAPTER VIII: COLLECTIVE WORSHIP AND FESTIVALS (CONTINUED); PART TWO: MYTHOLOGY; CHAPTER IX: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MYTHOLOGY OF SHINTÔ
CHAPTER X: GENESIS OF THE UNIVERSE-THE PRE-MATERIAL STAGESCHAPTER XI: THE BIRTH OF THE LAND; CHAPTER XII: THE TWO JOINT RULERS OF THE UNIVERSE; CHAPTER XIII: THE CONSOLIDATING OF THE LAND BY THE EARTHLY KAMI; CHAPTER XIV: THE PACIFYING OF THE LAND BY THE HEAVENLY KAMI; CHAPTER XV: THE DESCENT OF THE HEAVENLY GRANDSON; CHAPTER XVI: HIKO-HO-HO-DEMI AND HIS ELDER BROTHER; CHAPTER XVII: EMPERORS AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES; CHAPTER XVIII: THE HACHIMAN CYCLE; CHAPTER XIX: OTHER HISTORICAL KAMI; CHAPTER XX: LOCAL KAMI, FAMILY KAMI AND GUILD KAMI; CHAPTER XXI: BEAUTIES AND POWERS OF NATURE. CHAPTER XXII: KAMI OF THE ROAD, THE HOUSE AND THE FIELD AND KAMI OF FOODCHAPTER XXIII: EBISU, DAIKOKU AND THE GODS OF LUCK; CHAPTER XXIV: SECTARIAN SHINTÔ; APPENDIX: THE SHINTÔ GENESIS AND THE AVATARS OF VISHNU; NOTES TO APPENDIX; LIST OF SOURCES; ALPHABETICAL INDEX AND GLOSSARY. Subjects: Shinto. Japan Religion.
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