The Catalpa Bow: A Study Of Shamanistic Practices In Japan by Carmen Blacker

The Catalpa Bow: A Study Of Shamanistic Practices In Japan

Carmen Blacker

382 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective relaxing slow-paced
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This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend.

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