Kami-No-Michi: The Way of the Gods in Japan – Hope Huntly (1910) (1st ed)

S$120.00

Kami-No-Michi: The Way of the Gods in Japan – Hope Huntly (1910) (1st ed)

S$120.00

A Shinto novel based on the author’s own experiences.

Title: Kami-No-Michi: The Way of the Gods in Japan

Author: Hope Huntly

Publisher: Rebman Limited, London, 1910. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, fair. Some tanning and foxing, noticeable wear to cover. With 13 illustrated plates. Binding sound, text unmarked. 339pp., 7.5″ by 5″.

A fictionalized account of the author’s experiences in Japan, written as a story, meant to illustrate Shinto philosophy, ethics and customs.

According to the Publisher’s Preface:

“The desire of the author is to guide her readers faithfully along this time-honoured, half-obliterated “Way of the Gods,” clearing the path with reverent, not iconoclastic hands, because recognising it as the Way by which the Japanese were divinely led to their present mental altitude. The path is traced in a threefold aspect – Ethical, Philosophical, and Romantic.