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Shinto and Japanese Religion

Matsuri

Festivals of a Japanese Town

by Michael Ashkenazi

An ethnography of the festivals of a small Japanese town, describing their organisation, rituals, processions and social functions. Ashkenazi shows how matsuri express community identity as well as devotion to the kami.

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