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SHINTO

(The Way Of The Gods)

by

W. G. ASTON, C.M.G, D.Lit.

Author of 'A Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language,' 'A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language,' 'The Nihongi' (Translation), 'A History of Japanese Literature,' &c.

Longmans, Green, and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London New York and Bombay 1905 All rights reserved

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE.
I. MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF SHINTO 1
II. GENERAL FEATURES--PERSONIFICATION 5
III. GENERAL FEATURES--DEIFICATION OF MEN 36
IV. GENERAL FEATURES--FUNCTIONS OF GODS, &C. 65
V. MYTH 75
VI. THE MYTHICAL NARRATIVE 84
VII. THE PANTHEON--NATURE-DEITIES 121
VIII. THE PANTHEON--MAN-DEITIES 177
IX. THE PRIESTHOOD 200
X. WORSHIP 208
XI. MORALS, LAW, AND PURITY 241
XII. CEREMONIAL 268
XIII. MAGIC, DIVINATION, INSPIRATION 327
XIV. DECAY OF SHINTO. MODERN SECTS 359

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE.
_Ohonamochi and his Double_ 28-29
_The Sun-Goddess issuing from the Rock-Cave of Heaven_ 98-99
_Sun Worship at the Twin-Rocks of Ise_ 130-31
_Hohodemi at the Court of Toyotama-hiko_ 149
_Kedzurikake_. The one on the right is the ordinary form,
the other a special kind called _ihaigi_ 192
_Oho-nusa_.
(From Dr. Florenz's paper in the _T.A.S.J._) 214
_Gohei_ 215
_Ema_ (Horse-picture) 222
_Mikoshi_ 224-25
_Himorogi_. (From the _T.A.S.J._) 226
_Shrines of Ise_ 229-30
_Toriwi_ 233
_Chi no wa_ 266-67
_Misogi, or Purification Ceremony_ 298-99
_Tsuina, or Expulsion of Devils_ 310-11
_Wayside Shrines_ 366

ABBREVIATIONS.

Ch. K.--Mr. B. H. Chamberlain's translation of the _Kojiki_.

_Nihongi_.--Translation of the _Nihongi_ by W. G. Aston.

_T.A.S.J._--Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan.

ERRATA.

For "Welhausen," note to p. 113, read _Wellhausen_.

For "of," p. 12, l. 18, read _on_.

P. 335, l. 24, read _to do her behests_.

ADDENDA.

Add, bottom of p. 60, "St. Augustine says, in his 'Civitas Dei,' that funeral observances are rather solace to the living than help to the dead."

P. 41, line 25, after "deities" insert "a phrase which closely resembles the 'Zembla Bogh' used of the Czar by Russians."

P. 31, add to first note, "The Romans had an evil counterpart of Jupiter, viz., Vediovis or Vejovis."