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Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices (Paperback)
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Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices (Paperback)
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The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk
practices and festivals described in this book. The story of
rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then
draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant
local variations and to construct a general account of the history
and purpose of the ceremony. Field research was conducted during
study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga
Prefecture. The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year
via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial
to the feast of Bon, which with New Year ceremonies divides the
year. Alongside these community or public rites are described
private or family rituals concerned with birth, marriage and death.
The introductory chapter relates aspects of Japanese culture, myth
and language to the constant features of folk practice recorded or
extant in 1950s Japan. Originally published in 1963.
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