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Sakurai Katsunoshin is former high priest of the Taga Taisha shrine, and senior advisor to the Jinja Honchô (Association of Shinto Shrines). Previously he has been high priest (negi) in Ise Jingû, director of the board of trustees at Kôgakkan University in Ise, and Professor of Japanese Cultural History at Ashiya University. He has written extensively on many aspects of Shinto, from its social and intellectual history to ritual, prayers and concepts, and the history of Ise Jingû. Among his many publications and editorships are Ise Jingû no sokei to tenkai (Tokyo, 1991), Ise Jingû (Tokyo: 1998 [1988]), Gendai shosai norito daihôten (co edited) (Tokyo, 1988), and Nihon Shintôron (co-authored) (Tokyo: 1989).