The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
About - Steven TRENSON
Steven Trenson
is is a Hakubi research fellow and associate professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies. His research focuses on dragon and relic worship in medieval Shingon Buddhism and its relationship with Shintô lineages. His publications include "Une analyse critique de l'histoire du Shôugyôhô et du Kujakukyôhô : rites ésotériques de la pluie dans le Japon de l'époque de Heian (Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 13, 2003), and "Daigoji ni okeru kiu no kakuritsu to Seiryûshin shinkô" [On the establishment of rain prayers at Daigoji and the dragon princess Seiryô], in Girei no chikara: Chûsei shûkyô no jissen sekai [The Power of Rituals: The World of Religious Practice in Medieval Japan] , ed. Lucia Dolce, and Matsumoto Ikuyo (Kyoto: Hôzôkan 2010). He is currently finishing a monograph on the history of Shingon rainmaking, dragon worship, and related relic/jewel beliefs.
