TABLE OF CONTENTS.


 CHAP. PAGE.
I. Materials for the Study of Shinto[ 1]
II. General Features--Personification[ 5]
III. General Features--Deification of Men[ 36]
IV. General Features--Functions of Gods, &c.[ 65]
V. Myth[ 75]
VI. The Mythical Narrative[ 84]
VII. The Pantheon--Nature-Deities[121]
VIII. The Pantheon--Man-Deities[177]
IX. The Priesthood[200]
X. Worship[208]
XI. Morals, Law, and Purity[241]
XII. Ceremonial[268]
XIII. Magic, Divination, Inspiration[327]
XIV. Decay of Shinto. Modern Sects[359]