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.