| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The performers of these traditions were the yamabushi, practitioners of an ascetic local religion called shugend??, who dwelled in mountains and provided religious services such as healings and blessings to local communities, and the miko, female shamans who were generally associated with Shinto shrines.2In premodern Japan, the yamabushi and miko comprised a marginalized group that existed outside
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