Preliminary list of sources

• Bokhoven, Jeroen. 『葬儀と仏壇』(Sōgi to butsudan). Tokyo: Iwata shoin (岩田書院), 2005.

• Endō, Jun (遠藤潤) (Havens, Norman trans.). An encyclopedia of Shintō. Tokyo: Kokugakuin University (國學院大學), 2001.

P78: particularly elaborate discription of the concept “syncretism”

• Ekubota, Hiromichi (久保田裕道). 『日本の神さま』(Nihon no kami-sama). Tokyo: PHP Kenkyūsho (PHP研究所), 2008.

• Frank, Bernard. Le panthéon bouddhique au Japon-collections d'Emile Guimet. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1991.

A book one of my professors suggested: it has marvelous pictures of altars out of the collection of Guimet. Among them are very rare artefacts of which no similar ones in museums in Japan itself, according to this professor.
P213: Daikoku & Ebisu

• Ikegami, Yoshimasa (池上良正).『現世利益と世界宗教』(Gense riyaku to sekai shūkyō). Tokyo: Iwanami shoten (岩波書店), 2004.

Very interesting take on the definition of "religion" and the evaluation of "practical religion", by professor Ikegami from Komazawa University.

• Imai, Jun (今井淳), Yamamoto, Shinkō (山本真功). 『神道大系: 雲傳神道』(Shintō Taikei: Unden Shintō). Tokyo: Shintō Taikei Hensan-kai (神道大系編纂会), 1990.

 P553: Shingi kanjō, P593 Shichifukujin

• Kitami, Toshio (北見俊夫).『恵比寿信仰』(Ebisu shinkō). Tokyo:  Yūsankaku (雄山閣), 1991.

• Kukusho Kankōkai (国書刊行会). 『江戸風俗図絵集』 (Edo Fūzoku zue-shū) Tokyo: Kukusho Kankōkai (国書刊行会), 1986. 

P167: image of monks and offerings

• Kokugakuin Daigaku Nihon bunka kenkyūsho (國學院大學日本文化研究所) .『神道事典』(Shintō jiten).Tokyo: 弘文堂, 1994.

P90: 大黒天 description and origin of the association between Daikoku-ten and Ebisu

• Mitsuhashi , Takeshi (三橋健) & Shirayama, Yoshitarō (白山芳太郎). 『日本の神さまの事典』(Nihon no kami-sama no jiten). Tokyo: Daihōrin-kaku (大法輪閣), 2005.

• Miyato, Kesao  (宮本袈裟雄). 『福神信仰』 (Fukujin shinkō).  Tokyo:  Yūsankaku (雄山閣), 1987.

• Miyato, Kesao  (宮本袈裟雄). 『庶民信仰と現世利益』 (Shomin shinō to gense riyaku).  Tokyo:  Tōkyō-dō shuppan (東京堂出版), 2003.

Recommended to me by professor Ikegami.

• Morse, Edward Sylvester. Japanese homes and their surroundings. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.

P224: 19th century description of a kamidana

• Nakamaki, Hirochika　(中牧弘允). Japanese religions at home and abroad: anthropological perspectives. London: Routledge, 2003.

P18: Distincion Uragawa-Omotegawa kami shrines + what kind of kami are enshrined where in the house? (Wajirō Kon)
P24: Percentage butsudan-kamidana

• Nara kokuritsu hakubutsukan (奈良国立博物館). 『社寺縁起絵』(“Shaji engi e”). Tokyo: Kadogawa shoten (角川書店), 1975.

P137: image of a shrine (祠) from Urashima myōjin engi emaki 浦嶋明神縁起絵巻

• Nihon mingu gakkai (日本民具学会). 『日本民具辞典』(Minzoku kenchiku daijiten). Tokyo: Tokyo: Kyōsei (きょうせい), 1997.

P312: description of Ebisu and Daikoku-ten as a duo under the title “大黒天”.

• Nihon minzoku kenchiku gakkai (日本民族建築学会). 『民族建築大事典』(Minzoku kenchiku daijiten). Tokyo: Kashiwashobō (柏書房), 2001.

P266: remarks on Ebisu and Daikoku-ten as a duo.

• Nishimuta, Takao (西牟田崇生).『家庭の祭祀事典』(Katei no matsuri jiten). Tokyo: Kokusho kankoukai (国書刊行会), 2005 (based on a 1877 text).

P9: Interesting remark on kamidana 神棚in the “Kojiki”『古事記』(上巻き[神代巻])

• Rinsen-shoten (臨川書店).『神道大辭典　一巻』(Shintō dai-jiten). Tokyo: Heibonsha edition (平凡社版), 1969.

P210 (エビスダナ)
P356

• Sasaki, Masaru (佐々木勝). 『屋敷神の世界■民俗信仰と祖霊』. Tokyo: Meicho shuppan (名著出版), 1983.

• Sonoda, Minoru (薗田稔) & Hashimoto, Masanobu (橋本政宣).『神道史大辞典』(Shintō-shi dai-jiten). Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan (吉川弘文館), 2004.

P232: description of the concept ‘kamidana’.

Yet to be found:

•  坪井洋文.『国学院大学日本文化研究所紀要』四
• 平山敏治郎.『神棚と仏壇』
• 平田篤胤 『玉欅』(Old description of kamidana in Shintō dai-jiten)
• 「仏壇の起源についての一考察」『宗教研究』日本宗教社学会, 2001. (327)
• 柳田国男
• 神社本庁編.『祖霊社の栞』森瑞?枝
• "Venerating the Spirits of the Dead in Modern Japan" (Ghosts and modernity)