著者

大森 志郎

出版者

東京女子大学

雑誌

東京女子大學論集 (ISSN:04934350)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, no.1, pp.1-27, 1958-12-20

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In his respectable work Shinto; the Way of Gods, 1905, W. G. Aston introduced reed-ring (chinowa) ceremony in Japan, and explained it as a "modern form of the harai ceremony."Since then, during half a century, the researches of folk-lores in Japan have found many ancient customs existing among this nation to regard the gods of water as a serpent. The author sets Japan's ancient literatures against these folk-lores, and wishes to clarify that reed-ring ceremony originates from mimic magic of cutting serpent and that it was a kind of agricultural cults.