Abstract

This book introduces Japanese history of shrine with various photos: what did shrine mean to Japanese people?, How shrine was born and placed in the society through the history?
Readers will be able to deepen the knowledge about going to worship by understanding flow of the Japanese history.

Author’s Information

Writer, playwriter, and professor of religion. Borin in Tokyo in 1953. Graduated from Department of theology, Faculty of Literature. Got master's degree of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tokyo. He experienced associate professor at National Institute of Multimedia Education, professor at Japan Women's University, project researcher at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology. He works as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo Woman's Christian University now.