ABSTRACT

When it is realised that Messers. Miyaji and Hirano's Asama jinja no Rekishi is a book of over 900 pages and the former writer edited a further book of nearly 600 pages on the M.S. of the shrine, it will be obvious that no more than the merest bird's-eye sketch can be presented here. I aspire to no more than a brief outline of the famous shrine and its beautiful and revered Deity.