Shin-to: The Way of the Gods in Japan (1923) (1st ed)

S$90.00

Shin-to: The Way of the Gods in Japan (1923) (1st ed)

S$90.00

Title: Shin-to: The Way of the Gods in Japan, according to the printed and unprinted reports of the Japanese Jesuit missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries

Author: George Schurhammer

Publisher: Kurth Schroder/Bonn and Leipzig, 1923. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover. Good. Covers slightly faded and worn, slight tanning to pages. Interior very good, with one tissue guard detached. With 102 illustrations and 12 coloured plates. App 11″ by 9″, 210pp. Text in German and English. A heavy book, overseas shipping will cost extra.

An absolutely gorgeous book on the Shinto religion, detailing Shinto rituals, history and architecture. With 12 tissue-guarded colour plates and numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations. In German and English.