Shugendo, a form of ancient Japanese animism. (See also Yamabushi.) As well, in the early 60s he travelled for some months through India.
In the late 1960s and after, the content of Snyders poetry increasingly has to do with family, friends, and community. He continued to publish poetry throughout the 1970s, much of it reflecting his re-immersion in life on the American continent and his involv