Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar by Akiko Takenaka
published by the University of Hawaii Press and in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Press.
Book description from the Press:
This is the … Read the rest
News of a new translation of a Japanese folklore book by the most important figure of the twentieth century, Yanagita Kunio (1875 – 1962). His groundbreaking work did much to uncover the beliefs of ordinary Japanese, rather than those of … Read the rest
Green Shinto reader, Quin Arbeitman, has written in about the just published new translation of Kojiki (712), Japan’s oldest writing. As he says, it’s “A much needed development, as the Basil Hall Chamberlain translation is generally considered a needlessly … Read the rest
An interesting review by Green Shinto friend Aike Rots has appeared of a dissertation that focusses on Izumo Taisha and its role in the development of modern Shinto. The shrine remains a significant institution, though as the review below … Read the rest
Religion in Japan: Unity and Diversity, H. Byron Earhart (Western Michigan University)
Religion in Japan: Unity and Diversity BY ANDREW LEE
Japan Times NOV 30, 2013
This fifth edition of the classic textbook “Religion in Japan” has been completely rewritten … Read the rest
Shinto and the State 1868-1988
Helen Hardacre Princeton University Press, 1989
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… Read the rest‘Nowhere else in modern history do we find so pronounced an example of state sponsorship of a religion – in some respects the state can be said to
In the middle ages it was Kumano. In the Edo period it was Ise. Now it seems to be the 88 temples of Shikoku that are Japan’s prime pilgrimage destination.
Amy Chavez has recently published a book on running … Read the rest
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