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Shugendō

Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion

by Miyake Hitoshi · Gaynor Sekimori (ed.)

Translated essays by the leading Japanese scholar of Shugendō on its history, cosmology, rituals and relationship to folk religion. Miyake presents Shugendō as a synthesis of Japanese religious elements.

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