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This volume collects five essays by Japanese scholars (plus a preface and translator?? postscript) that examine matsuri not merely as folkloric spectacle but as a vital dimension of Japanese religious life. The focus is on ritual, community, sacred space, legend, symbolism, and experience. The essays are diverse in method (historical, anthropological, symbolic) and setting (villages, local shrines, festival case studies), but they share an interest in the interplay between people, place, and ritual. The translator?? postscript by Norman Havens reflects on how ??atsuri?? as a term and concept sits within studies of Shinto, popular religion, and Japanese ethnic religiosity; showing how scholars are rethinking what ??eligion?? or ??hinto?? mean in modern and historical Japan.