EINOO
Shingo has been Professor of Sanskrit Philology since 1991.
Educated at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Letters (B.A.,
1971; M.A., 1973) and Marburg University in Germany (Ph.D.,
1986), he has served as Lecturer at Kyushu Tokai University
(1980-1984), and Research Fellow (1984-1986) and Associate
Professor (1986-1991) at the National Museum of Ethnology.
From 1971 he studied Vedic ritual. From 1988 he has visited
India several times and observed many religious rites and
customs such as daily rituals and annual festivals and
visited several pilgrimage centers. Being interested in
the changes in rituals from the time of the Vedic literature
to today’s India, he is now studying the formation and
development of these religious activities from the time
of the latest Vedic literature onward.
Professor Einoo published a monograph entitled Die
C turm sya
oder die altindischen Tertialopfer . Dargestellt
nach den Vorschriften der Br -hmanas.
as und der rautas tras (Tokyo:
Institute for the Study of Languages and Culture of Asia
and Africa, 1988, xxii + 383 pp.). Among the articles
regarding the study of the formation and development
of the Hindu rituals, the followings are to be mentioned: "Is
the Sarasvatasattra the Vedic Pilgrimage?" in K. Kimura
et al., eds., Volume in Memory of Professor EJIMA
Yasunori , Tokyo, Shunjusha Co., 2000, 607-622; "The
Autumn Goddess Festival: Described in the Pur nas," in
Masakazu Tanaka and Musashi Tachikawa, eds., Living
with akti:
Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia , Senri
Ethnological Studies , no.50, Osaka: National Museum
of Ethnology, 1999, pp.33-70; "The Formation of the P j Ceremony," Studien
zur Indologie und Iranistik 20, 1996; and "Changes
in Hindu Ritual: With a Focus on the Morning Service," in
Yasuhiko Nagano and Yasuke Ikari (eds.) Senri Ethnological
Studies 36, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka,
1993, 197-237.
The Memoirs of Institute of Oriental Culture
and The Monograph Series of the Institute of Oriental Culture
are abbreviated in this section as MIOC and MSIOC.