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200 10$aJapanese rainmaking $eand other folk practices /$fGeoffrey Bownas
210 1$aOxon [England] :$cRoutledge,$d2004.
215 $a1 online resource (179 p.)
225 0 $aWitchcraft, folklore and mythology ;$vI
225 0$aRoutledge library editions.$pAnthropology and ethnography
300 $aFirst published in 1963.
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327 $aCover ; Japanese Rainmaking ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Preface ; Table of Contents ; One Introduction ; Two The New Year ; Three Births, Marriages and Deaths ; Four Gion Festival ; Five Bon ; Six Rainmaking ; Seven Tenri and Yamato ; Eight Taboo ; Nine The Village Year
330 $aThe ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony.
Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture.
The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feas
410 0$aRoutledge library editions.$pAnthropology and ethnography.
606 $aFolklore$zJapan
607 $aJapan$xSocial life and customs
608 $aElectronic books.
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