Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

7/1/1973 - 12/31/1974

Funding Totals

$26,795.00 (approved)
$26,795.00 (awarded)


An Architectural and Anthropologic Study of Japanese Religious Ritual

FAIN: RO-11741-73

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)
Gunter G. Nitschke (Project Director: July 1973 to present)

To place the ritual renewal of the Ise Grand Shrines as primus inter pares into a family of literally hundred of similar rituals still performed in Japan today at folk festivals. To survey the handwritten records and sketches in the Ise Shrine archives.