Norito

A Translation of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers - Updated Edition

Donald L. Philippi, Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa

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Princeton University Press
28 February 1991

Shintoism

This volume presents the only English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. These prayers, norito, are works of religious literature that are basic to our understanding of Japanese religious history. Locating Donald Philippi as one of a small number of scholars who have developed a perceptive approach to the problem of ""hermeneutical distance"" in dealing with ancient or foreign texts, Joseph M. Kitagawa recalls Mircea Eliade's observation that ""most of the time [our] encounters and comparisons with non-Western cultures have not made all the 'strangeness' of these cultures evident...

We may say that the Western world has not yet, or not generally, met with authentic representatives of the 'real' non-Western traditions."" Composed in the stately ritual language of the ancient Japanese and presented as a ""performing text,"" these prayers are, Kitagawa tells us, ""one of the authentic foreign representatives in Eliade's sense."" In the preface Kitagawa elucidates their significance, discusses Philippi's methods of encountering the ""strangeness"" of Japan, and comments astutely on aspects of the encounter of East and West.

By: Donald L. Philippi
Preface by: Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Updated Edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 142g
ISBN: 9780691014890
ISBN 10: 0691014892
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 28 February 1991
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Norito: A Translation of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers - Updated Edition

A welcome republication ...of a group of important norito brought out by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics ... The new Preface supplied by Kitagawa is ...a subtantial essay worthy of attention in its own right. It scetches the cultural, historical, and religious contexts in which the earliest written collection of norito emerged -- Monumenta Nipponica