Opening Japan's unseen lineages.

Classical texts, shrine records, regional traditions, public materials, and institutional scholarship are used to organise deities, sacred places, folklore beings, and legends. Each item can be read on its own, but the larger value is in tracing the relations among places, stories, enshrined deities, and sources.

• Published information is centred on source-backed material, and thin assertions are avoided.
• Shrines, traditions, and living religious contexts are handled with respect and distance.
• The reading experience is connected to real places and published source notes whenever possible.

• It does not guarantee results in worship, faith, health, money, or daily life.
• It does not invite readers into a particular sect, organisation, or belief.
• It does not decide a person's character or future.