A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Conventions	p. ix
Frames and Focuses	p. 3
Historical Momentums	p. 13
The Kami	p. 25
Ritual and Ceremony: an Overview	p. 34
Finding the Measure	p. 42
Head Priest Uesugi	p. 55
Spring	p. 61
Beans versus Demons	p. 63
On Becoming a Priest: Matsumoto- San's Version	p. 71
Backstage at the Dolls' Day Festival	p. 77
Judgment by Scalding Water	p. 85
Festival for Fecundity	p. 91
Summer	p. 99
Being Dirty, Getting Clean, and the Ritual of Great Purification	p. 101
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, but . .	p. 113
A Woman's Place Is the Shrine	p. 122
Autumn	p. 131
Okunchi: a City's Heart and S0Ul	p. 133
Children and Silk	p. 160
Thanksgiving for New Rice	p. 167
Winter	p. 177
On Spirit, Geomancy, and Sake	p. 179
Sanctifying the Earth	p. 190
Three Rites For Ending and Beginning the Year	p. 199
To Be an Adult	p. 212
Conclusion	p. 223
The Rituals and Festivals of Suwa Shrine [1987]	p. 226
Map and Guide to the Shrine Precincts	p. 231
Notes	p. 237
Glossary of Japanese Terms	p. 253
Index	p. 281
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