Shinto Norito - A Book of Prayers (perfect bound) Paperback – July 6, 2006

The verses in this collection are very inspiring. They use images from Nature to describe spiritual states of mind and progress on the spiritual path. Here is an example: "Let the impurities be swept away by the kami Seoritsu Hime / Who dwells in the swift rivers that cascade from the top of the high mountains and from the top of the low mountains, / Carrying the impurities out to the great expanse of ocean (p. 21)." The spirit, god, or kami is a natural force that we can invoke in prayer to help us. I read from it every morning to set the day right. The individual kamis may be specific to Shinto, but the forces they represent are universal. Highly recommended for followers of any spiritual path.

I decided on a whim to purchase this book, and it is exactly what I'd hoped it would be. It has many prayers that I intend to learn and use. It has the romanji, kanji, and hiragana of the prayers, as well as an english translation.The only downsides are, although there are quite a few prayers, it does seem most of them are practically the same just with a paragraph ommitted or added. Also, at least on my phone, the hiragana is almost impossible to read. That said, I still strongly recommend this book, especially for the price.

I just received it at my door today, and I am pleased with what is contained in it. It is difficult to find a collection of Shinto prayers in the English language. This book collects some of the most useful prayers, and presents them in a much needed format. Scholars can judge the translation by reading the Japanese text. English speakers can understand the prayer. Also, the romaji (romanization of the Japanese words) is included in the book so that people can actually perform these prayers in the original language without knowledge of Japanese.

An extremely interesting and informative read, both for those learning about Shinto as a hobby or for long-time followers. The writing is clear and easy to understand, with the Japanese kanji, romaji and English translation set up very smoothly. Very happy with my purchase

I got the Kindle edition of this book. The section with the prayers were very difficult to readon the Kindle. Looks like someone scanned the pages--the print of the prayers was much smaller than the print of the introduction. Because this is not the fault of the book itself, I still gave it 4 stars because the readable content was educational--gave me more information on the Shinto religion than I could get elsewhere.The author was correct, at least in my experience, that a lot of the information on Shintoism is still in Japanese form of writing (kanji/hiragana) and would be daunting for a regular person like myself to tackle. Shintoism is the belief that everything has a spirit and we need to live in harmony with everything. Rocks, trees, etc all have spirits and are important to life. Each of us has part of the god (kami). The Shinto prayers and rituals are one way of connecting to the Divine spirit within.I will re-read this book on my laptop, using Kindle for PC. Hopefully, the content of the prayers will be legible and then I will update this review.

Loved the book and it's explanation on what a lot of the prayers and what they mean and how to say them as well

This book is extremely useful and informative and the information is presented in a thoughtful manner. It has helped take me to a level of Shinto that no academic writings ever could.

The contents of the book are fine, my issue is with the Kindle edition of this book, which is pretty bad. The letter 'm' is regularly presented as 'rn' (RN), hyphens in the middle of words that are not occurring at the page margin, and other such typos (which are doubly irritating when dealing with words originating in a foreign language, making it harder to guess whether they are correct or not -- which is difficult to double check even if you can read Japanese due to aforementioned difficulty in reading the kanji and kana) that are clearly the result of a poorly done PDF (or similar such program) conversion from photos of the physical book pages that was obviously not reviewed even a little bit for editing before it was put out for sale. The kanji (Chinese characters) and hiragana (Japanese characters) are tiny, blurry, and impossible to read, especially when they occur within a line of otherwise English text. Actually, the poor quality of this so-called kindle digital version is as you would expect from an illegally pirated online version. Unacceptable quality control and zero editing efforts.