Occult Japan (Annotated)

Occult Japan is Percival Lowell's incisive account of the esoteric and ecstatic dimensions of Japanese religious life, especially Shinto practices of pilgrimage, trance, possession, exorcism, and mountain devotion. Written in the polished, observant prose of a late nineteenth-century travel scholar, the book combines ethnographic curiosity with literary elegance. It belongs to the era of Western e...