TY - BOOK ID - 78142060 TI - Japanese rainmaking and other folk practices AU - Bownas, Geoffrey AU - Brown, Pauline PY - 2004 SN - 0415866693 1315018020 1136550895 9781136550898 9781315018027 0415330696 9780415330695 9781136550966 9781136551031 9780415866699 1136550968 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Folklore KW - Folk-lore, Japanese KW - Japan KW - Social life and customs. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142060 AB - The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony.
Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture.
The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feas ER -