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HOW TO SEE THE PRESENT PUBLICATION
Insert the CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive.
Double-Click the MyComputer icon which will appear left above corner on your monitor.
Double-Click the CD-ROM drive icon. If you're using Macintosh, the CD-ROM icon automatically appears on your desktop after the CD-ROM is inserted into your CD-ROM drive, so simply double-click it.
Double-Click the file "Siromi0.htm". Then Internet Browser you're using starts and displays the Contents Page.
Then you can jump and see every chapters you want by clicking the underlined spot.
If you're using Korean operating system like Korean Windows 95, please open the file ksrm_0.htm at first. Although whole the document is written in Japanese, it will be shown in Korean Standard Character Code so that you can read it on your Korean personal computer.
You can also switch SJIS code and KS code by clicking the spot "Shown in KS Code" or "Shown in SJIS Code" which appears rhight above corner of the Contents Page.
PREFACE
The main purpuse of present CD-ROM document is to provide basic informations on Shiromi Kagura, as the author has watched and experienced them. Needless to say, whole details and progress cannot be reconstructed precisely. Nor is the work intended as a collection of photographs and videos. Instead, the author hopes that this will be some helps to those who are interested in Shiromi Kagura, and willing to see it in some day.
Any comments and suggestions for our works are highly appreciated and all the communications are requested to be addressed to the Author of present CD-ROM publication, Prof. Masataka Suzuki, Dept. of Literature, Keio University, and also to the leader of this project, Prof. Shinichi Nomura, Dept. of Literature, Keio University, Tokyo JAPAN.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The whole project has been subsidized by KOREAN Foundation. The Field Work has been realized by official support of Keio University.
First of all, we would like to express our heartiest thanks to the people of Siromi who are practicing and handing down the tradition of the Performance Art of Siromi Kagura.
We are very much obliged to Dr.KIM Inwhoe, Director of Yonsei University Museum. Our special thanks should be also extended to Mr. KIM Soonam who has engaged the research work on shamanistic rituals and folkloric festivals in Eastern Asia for decades, and firstly proposed the idea of this CD-ROM publication.
During our compiling work of the present CD-ROM publication, Mr. HARADA Takashi, Lecture of School of Library and Information Science, Keio University, afforded us full facilities and support for the success of our work.