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Amaterasu no Ango
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What is Shinto? What is the legitimacy of the Imperial family? Where did the Japanese people come from? ---The key to these questions lies sealed in the supreme deity, Amaterasu, and the Daijosai, the Imperial Court's most secret ritual... This book will challenge your common sense of history. "A shocking masterpiece that surpasses The Da Vinci Code!!" --Makoto Mogi (author, author of Super Japanese History, Geohistoria, and many others) This popular work, with 4.2 stars and over 6,000 reviews on Amazon, is now available in paperback! On the day Kenji, a New York resident, is reunited with his Japanese father for the first time in over 40 years, he receives word that he has been murdered. His father was the 82nd chief priest of Kago Shrine in Tango, one of Japan's oldest shrines, and was the head of the family. Kago Shrine is the only shrine in Japan where both the main deities of the Inner and Outer Shrines of Ise Jingu (Amaterasu and Toyouke) were originally enshrined. In 1975, the shrine was home to Japan's longest family tree, the Kaifu Family Genealogy, which was surprisingly designated a National Treasure. Why was Kenji's father, a Shinto priest, killed in a country far from Japan? What did he want to tell Kenji on the day of their reunion? Kenji travels to Japan with his friends to uncover the mystery of his father's death, but... This novel uses a wealth of photographs, diagrams, and other materials to tackle Japan's history in a groundbreaking historical mystery! (All descriptions of the gods, shrines, rituals, treasures, documents, legends, relics, and ruins in this novel are based on fact.) ◆ From the Author: When I first heard this story, I thought it was just a joke. However, gradually, I began to think, "Even if it was a coincidence, it's interesting," and before I knew it, my thoughts had changed to, "Maybe..." Then, as I became interested and looked into it further, my confusion gradually turned to, "It's difficult to rationally deny it," and finally, finally... If you're interested in the roots of Japan, why not take a journey into this mysterious labyrinth
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