Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion Book by Andrea Castiglioni Takeshi Miyagi and the late Morihiro Saito

and the late Morihiro Saito

Momochi clan

Tsubaki Kotengu-ryu Bojutsu

Sit back and enjoy a fine day of "Higher Consciousness Through Harder Contact with the Dog Brothers and Friends

Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion Book by Andrea Castiglioni Takeshi Miyagi and the late Morihiro SaitoDefining Shugendo brings together leading international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss what has been an essential component of Japanese religions for more than a thousand years. Contributors explore how mountains have been abodes of deities, a resting place for the dead, sources of natural bounty and calamities, places of religious activities, and a vast repository of symbols. The book shows that many peoples have chosen them as