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Shinto and Japanese Religion

The Catalpa Bow

A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan

by Carmen Blacker

A classic study of Japanese mediums and ascetics, from blind female shamans to mountain yamabushi, and of beliefs about spirits, possession and the other world. Blacker combined textual research with years of fieldwork.

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