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Simple Guides eBook Series

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  • Shinto - Simple Guides

    by Ian Reader, Simple Guides ...
    Series series Simple Guides
    This book will help you to:Appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life.To become familiar with the key traditions and festivals (matsuri) of the Shinto year.To understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto ritual.To gain insights into the controversies surrounding Shinto, politics, and nationalism.Access the world's religions with Simple Guides: Religion a s ... Read more

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    Aikido Ground Fighting presents effective ground techniques that remain true to aikido founder Morehei Ueshiba's teachings while addressing a potential weakness in the system: while aikido is renowned for its submission and compliance techniques as well as grappling from a standing position, it is not known for its effectiveness when it comes to ground fighting. Aikido Ground Fighting is a unique ... Read more

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  • The Essence of Shinto

    Japan's Spiritual Heart

    by Motohisa Yamakage ...
    In The Essence of Shinto, revered Shinto master Motohisa Yamakage explains the core values of Shinto and explores both basic tenets and its more esoteric points in terms readily accessible to the modern Western reader. He shows how the long history of Shintoism is deeply woven into the fabric of Japanese spirituality and mythology--indeed, it is regarded as Japan’s very spiritual roots--and ... Read more

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  • Shinto, the Way of the Gods

    by W. G. Aston ...
    "Shinto, the Way of the Gods" is a book written by W. G. Aston. William George Aston (18411911) was a British diplomat, scholar, and Japanologist who made significant contributions to the understanding of Japanese language, culture, and history. His work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries greatly aided Western understanding of Japan and its traditions.In "Shinto, the Way of the Gods," W. G. ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Religion in Japan

    by Jason Ananda Josephson ...
    A study of how Japan once had no concept of "religion," and what happened when officials were confronted by American Commodore Perry in 1853.Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to ... Read more

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  • Folk Legends of Japan

    by Richard M. Dorson ...
    Delightfully illustrated, this collection of Japanese myths and fairy tales presents readers with a rich folk tradition.Folk Legends of Japan contains of over one hundred Japanese folk legends. These have been selected by a distinguished American folklorist, drawn from expert Japanese transcriptions of oral legends, and carefully translated in such a way as to bring out the charming, unadorned, ... Read more

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  • Japanese Culture

    The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

    by Roger J. Davies ...
    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Read more

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  • Okinawa: A People and Their Gods

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    Okinawa is a fascinating account of the most unusual religious practices of the Okinawan people.Subject throughout their long history to many foreign influences, the Okinawan people still retain to a remarkable degree a strong reverence for their prehistoric animistic beliefs. nevertheless, in accommodating themselves to the infiltration of Buddhist, Confucian, Shinto, and Christian influences ... Read more

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  • The Yengishiki/The Englishiki

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    Shinto ("the way of the gods") is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan herself. It remains Japan's major religion besides Buddhism. "Shinto gods" are called kami. They are sacred spirits which take the form of things and concepts important to life, such as wind, rain, mountains, trees, rivers and fertility. Humans become kami after they die and are revered by their ... Read more

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  • The Mythological Japanese Tanuki

    by Pinky Toky ...
    The mythological tanuki was originally depicted as an evil and mischievous animal. After centuries of evolution, it has been turned into a lovable icon of luck and wealth. Tanuki statues are popular souvenirs of Japan. ... Read more

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  • Seven Lucky Gods of Japan

    by Reiko Chiba ...
    This Japanese Shinto book profiles each of the "Seven Luck Gods"—important deities in Japanese culture.The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan are a group of deities whose origins stem from Indian, Chinese, and indigenous Japanese gods of fortune. Not all of the gods are mythical beings. One of them is an actual historical person. Each of the seven gods has been recognized as a deity for more than a ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion

    by Bernhard Scheid, Mark Teeuwen ...
    The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan.The essays in this impressive work refer to Esoteric Buddhism as the core of Japan’s "culture of secrecy". Esoteric Buddhism developed in ... Read more

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