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First published in 2002. What is Shinto? is the key question asked by all who seek to understand Japan and the Japanese, answered in this volume by Sir Ernest Satow, the great British scholar and diplomat. Shinto is the unique and little-known religious beliefs that flourished in Japan before the introduction of Buddhism and Confucianism, but there are many versions - which is the pure form? Satow... Read more
Chapter 1 *Reprinted from the Transaction of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Serier,. Vol. VII, Pt. II, pp. 95–126., Ernest Satow; Chapter 2 *Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Series, Vol. VII, Part IV, pp. 393–434., Ernest Satow; Chapter 3 *Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Series, Vol. IX, Pt. IT, pp. 183–211 (.Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9.), Ernest Satow; Chapter 4 *Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Series, Vol. XXVII, Pt. I, pp. 1–112; Chapter 5 *Revised by the author, 1882. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, First Series, Vol. III., Ernest Satow;
Biography
Sir ERNEST SATOW (1843-1929) was a noted linguist and expert on Japan, where he was long resident and served as British Minister from 1895-1900. The late Dr. KARL FLORENZ was a distinguished German Japanologist.
