Sword and Blossom: A British Officer’s Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman by Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams Penguin, 2006 345 pages
This is not a Shinto book at all, but a love affair between an Anglo-Irish officer, heir to … Read the rest
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Shinto no kyozo to jitsuzo by Inoue Hiroshi Kodansha, 2011
Here’s a book by a university professor (Osaka Kogyo University, also professor emeritus at Shimane Johou Kagakabu), whose promotion blurb screams ‘Shinto was invented three times!’
Those familiar with recent … Read the rest
Sources of Japanese Tradition Vol. 1. ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe and Paul Varley Columbia University Press, first published 1958; revised in 2002 524 pages
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This anthology of significant writings in the cultural formation of … Read the rest
‘Shinto: The Way of the Gods’ by W.G. Aston London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1905 390 pages, medium size. ISBN 1-4179-4872-8 $23.07
Together with Ernest Satow and B.H. Chamberlain, W.G. Aston (1841-1911) was one of the early giants of Japanese … Read the rest
‘The Fox and the Jewel’ by Karen A. Smyers US: Univ. of Hawaii, 1999 271 pages, medium size. ISBN 0-8248-2102-5
The book is subtitled ‘shared and private meanings in contemporary Japanese Inari worship’, though in a sense the book is … Read the rest
Shinto Ways of Being Religious by Gary E. Kessler NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004. 62 pages
ISBN: 0073016896 Selling around $20.00
This is a college textbook which provides a series of reading texts with questions for discussion. However, that does not mean … Read the rest
‘Shinto in History: Ways of the kami’ ed. by John Breen and Mark Teeuwen US: Univ of Hawaii, 2000 368 pages, medium size. ISBN 0-8248-2363-X
This is a weighty collection of academic essays aimed at showing that there is no … Read the rest