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This article reports on a thirty-three-day celebration of the bodhisattva Kannon, which occurred in July and August of 1993 as the latest enact­ ment of a thirty-three-year cycle of such celebrations, at a Soto Zen temple in Niigata Japan known as Jingu-ji. Its three parts describe the geographi­ cal and historical context of Jingu-ji and its tradition of Kannon worship; the planning, fund raising, sequence of events, and social significance of the thirty-three-day festival last year; and the significance of Jingu-ji,s Kannon festival as a contemporary example of Soto Zen in a Japanese town. It analyzes how the Kannon celebration functions on a local level as a medium for the preservation and reconstitution of local community iden­ tity. It concludes by questioning the validity of widespread scholarly catego­ rizations that separate the study of Buddhist traditions, such as Zen, from their common cultural manifestations in popular religious practices, such as Kannon worship.

Sōtō Zen in a Japanese town: Field notes on a once-every-thirty-three-years Kannon festival