<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Noble Cousins!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Greetings from Solveig!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I should point out that while articles on yamabushi and Japanese shamen are interesting,</DIV><DIV>these are distinct cults from cult shintoh which is itself distinct from (now abolished) state</DIV><DIV>shinto and PL (Perfect Libertty) which some argue is a continuation of state shintoh.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV>NOTE: Shinto (The Way of the Gods) and Shinto (New Sword) will tend to look the same</DIV><DIV>in English.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>While I was able to find an online index to Monumenta Nipponica, I was not able to</DIV><DIV>find an online index to the Journal of East Asian Studies. Also, Cornell at one time</DIV><DIV>had in its collection something called (if I recall correctly) The Journal of the Asiatic</DIV><DIV>Society of Japan. However, I am not finding it in their catalogue at the moment.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Generally speaking, the premier articles in Japanese studies appear in Monumenta </DIV><DIV>Nipponica which is mostly available from JSTOR. Although Monumenta Nipponica</DIV><DIV>does not appear to have an article on Miko, it does have a few Shintoh related articles:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">KATO Genchi.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>The Shinto Studies of Jiun, the Buddhist Priest, and Moto-ori, the Shinto Savant.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 1: 2 (1938), 301-16.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">DUMOULIN, Heinrich.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Zur Japanischen Shinto-Forschung.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 1: 2 (1938), 576-84.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">REITZ, Karl.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Die Feuerberuhigungszeremonie des Shinto (Chinka-sai).</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 3: 1 (1940), 109-26.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">ISHIBASHI T. & Heinrich Dumoulin, tr.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Yuiitsu-Shinto Myobo-yoshu: Lehrabriss des Yuiitsu-Shinto. [Attr. to Yoshida Kanetomo.]</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 3: 1 (1940), 182-239.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">SECKEL, Dietrich.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Taigenkyu, das Heiligtum des Yuiitsu-Shinto: Eine Studie zur Symbolik und Geschichte der japanischen Architektur.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 6 (1943), 52-85.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">MORRELL, Robert E., tr.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Muju Ichien's Shinto-Buddhist Syncretism: Shasekishu, Book 1.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 28: 4 (1973), 447-88.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">MORRELL, Robert E., tr.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Muju Ichien's Shinto-Buddhist Syncretism: Shasekishu, Book 1.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 28: 4 (1973), 447-88.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">MILLS, D. E.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Soga Monogatari, Shintoshu, and the Taketori Legend: The Nature and Significance of Parallels between the manabon Soga Monogatari and Shintoshu, with Particular Reference to a Parallel Variant of the Taketori Legend. [Includes translations of excerpt from</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 30: 1 (1975), 37-68.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">SHILLONY, Ben-Ami.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>The Princess of the Dragon Palace: A New Shinto Sect Is Born.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 39: 2 (1984), 177-82.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">GRAPARD, Allan G.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 47: 1 (1992), 27-58.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">GRAPARD, Allan G., tr.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Yuiitsu Shinto Myobo Yoshu. [By Yoshida Kanetomo.]</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 47: 2 (1992), 137-62.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">TEEUWEN, Mark.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Attaining Union with the Gods: The Secret Books of Watarai Shinto.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 48: 2 (1993), 225-46.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">TAJIRI, Yuichiro.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Medieval and Early Modern Shinto Reconsidered.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 53: 3 (1998), 375-382.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">TEEUWEN, Mark.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>State Shinto: An "Independent Religion"?</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> Volume 54: 1 (1999), 111-122.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Your Humble Servant</DIV><DIV>Solveig Throndardottir</DIV><DIV>Amateur Scholar</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>