Female Shamans in Eastern Japan during the Edo Period In his article, “Female Shamans in Eastern Japan during the Edo period,” Gerald Groemer argues that Japanese Shamanism studies tend to focus on the psychologistic, folkloristic and phenomenological aspects (28). The history aspect is rarely discussed, and when it is tackled, it is often thematized and …
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Pillow Book Assignment Sei Shōnagon, court lady to Empress Teishi, was born 966 CE during the Heian era. Also known as the author of the Pillow Book because of her accounts, and personal opinions she wrote down while she served the empress. To understand this book we need to understand the culture she grew up …
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Nowadays, some modern scholars considered that Shinto was not a really religion at all or that it did not exist as a separate religion until the creation of State Shinto in the Meiji period. However, in my opinion, Shinto already became a religion before Meiji period. In the Oxford dictionary, the term “religion” is defined …
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Religion is used to explain what the happenings in our universe that cannot be explained through science and philosophy. It is the belief in an overseeing power that dictates the events of the universe including how the universe came about, how the world will come to an end, and even affect the happenings of everyday …
