Sourcebook in Shinto: Selected Documents (Resources in Asian Philosophy and Religion)

Contents......Page 8
Guide to the Romanization of Japanese Words......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
Introduction: Mythology and Classic Texts......Page 28
Earhart on Kami and Mythology......Page 30
The Narrative of Izanagi and Izanami in the Nihongi......Page 33
The Incident of the Ame-no-Iwato in the Kojiki and the Descent of the Heavenly Grandson......Page 40
Early Ritual Songs......Page 43
Man'yōshū (Collection of Myriads of Leaves)......Page 48
Selections from the Kokinshū......Page 52
Religious Sentiments in the Shin Kokinshū......Page 59
Imperial Poetry (Rekidai Tennō Gyōsei)......Page 65
The Okagemairi (Pilgrimage) to Ise......Page 72
Introduction: Shinto and Early Buddhist Culture......Page 76
A Chinese View of Japan......Page 78
Early Legal Codes and Shinto......Page 80
Yōrō-Ryō (Civil Codes of the Yoro Period, 718)......Page 82
Shoku Nihongi (Further Chronicles of Japan)......Page 83
Kogo Shūi (Gleanings from Words of Antiquity)......Page 85
Sendai Kuji Hongi (Authentic Records of Past Ages and Ancient Matters)......Page 86
Engishiki (Ordinances of Engi, 901—903)......Page 88
Norito from the Engishiki......Page 101
Ōbarae no Kotoba......Page 107
Introduction: Shinto and Japan's Modernization......Page 114
Meiji Constitution Provisions Concerning Shinto......Page 116
Imperial Rescripts (Shōchoku-Shū) of the Meiji Period......Page 117
Steps in the Evolution of State Shinto......Page 123
Propaganda of the Final Period, 19145—1945......Page 124
Wilbur M. Fridell on Shrine Mergers......Page 126
F. H. Ross on the Background to Disaster: 1912—1945......Page 131
Excerpts from the Kokutai no Hongi, The Ministry of Education Textbook, 1937......Page 132
Murakami on the State and Shinto since 1945......Page 134
Directive for the Disestablishment of State Shinto (1945)......Page 140
Imperial Rescript on the Reconstruction of the New Japan......Page 144
Laws Affecting Shinto since 1945......Page 146
Introduction: The Imperial System Past and Present......Page 150
Laws Regulating the Imperial Household......Page 153
Prewar Claims about the Emperor......Page 154
Interpretations of the Daijōsai......Page 155
The Emperor System and the Japanese National Consciousness......Page 157
Introduction: New Religions as Old Religions......Page 170
Helen Hardacre on the Worldview of the New Religions......Page 172
Raymond Hammer on Japan's Religious Ferment......Page 174
Harry Thomsen on the New Religions......Page 178
H. Neill MacFarland on the Rush Hour of the Gods......Page 180
H. Byron Earhart on the Significance of the New Religions......Page 184
Concluding Comments on the New, New Religions......Page 186
Comment on the Selection of Materials......Page 188
Introduction: Shinto and the Essence of Japan......Page 190
Yoshida Shinto......Page 192
Watarai Shinto......Page 199
Confucian Shinto......Page 208
National Learning: Kokugaku Shinto......Page 217
Later Edo Period Thinkers......Page 244
Introduction: The Western Rediscovery of Japan and Shinto......Page 254
E. M. Satow on the Shinto Revival......Page 257
W. G. Aston on Shinto......Page 259
Lafcadio Hearn on Japanese Culture......Page 264
D. C. Holtom on Japan's National Faith......Page 267
Introduction: Japanese Perspectives on Japan......Page 274
Kato Genchi and Early Twentieth-Century Studies of Shinto......Page 275
Muraoka Tsunetsugu on Shinto Thought......Page 279
Anesaki Masaharu on Japanese Religion......Page 286
Anzu Motohiko's Classification of Shinto......Page 289
Ono Sokyo on Branches of Shinto and Types of Kami......Page 291
Sakamaki Shunzo and Shinto Ethnocentrism......Page 295
Introduction: The Postwar Western Study of Japan and the Reappraisal of Shinto......Page 296
Jean Herbert on Shinto......Page 299
Delmer Brown on Ancestral Kami......Page 303
Edwin O. Reischauer on Shinto in Contemporary Japan......Page 313
J. H. Kamstra on Syncretism and Encounter......Page 315
Joseph Kitagawa on Shinto and Buddhism......Page 316
Thomas Imoos on Jungian Archetypes in Shinto Rituals......Page 318
Carmen Blacker on Shamanism in Japanese Religion......Page 324
The Spae Thesis on Shinto as the Mediator......Page 325
Allan Grapard's Approach to Japanese Cults......Page 332
David C. Lewis on the "Unseen Japan"......Page 335
Fosco Mariani on Patterns of Continuity......Page 337
Susan E. Tyler: The Revisionist View......Page 339
Okano Haruko: A Feminist View of Shinto......Page 340
Introduction: The Japanese Reassessment of Shinto......Page 342
Yamamoto Yukitaka on Kannagara and Daishizen......Page 343
Furukawa Tesshi on Sei-mei-shin......Page 357
Hirai Naofusa on Industrialization and Shinto......Page 361
Ueda Kenji on Misunderstandings between Japanese and Westerns in Shinto Studies......Page 365
Asoya Masahiko on Shinto and the Internationalization of Japan......Page 367
Katayama Fumihiko on Shinto and the Contemporary World......Page 370
Appendix 1: List of Imperial Incumbents......Page 376
Appendix 2:The Misog Ritual......Page 382
Appendix 3: The Association of District First Shrines (Ichi-no-miya Kai)......Page 392
Selected Bibliography......Page 406
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