Shintoism
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The Shinto religion was started in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) of
Japanese history. The Tokugawa “Enlightenment” inspired a group of people who
studied kokugaku, which roughly translated means “nativism,” “Japanese Studies,”
or “Native Studies.” Kokugaku's intent was to recove ....
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.... up of two Chinese words meaning “the way of the gods”(Shen : “
spiritual power, divinity”; Tao : “the way or path”). The word for this in
Japanese is kannagara : "the way of the kami ."
Many things can be said about Shinto. First, it was a tribal religion,
not a state one. However, even when the tribes were organized into coherent
states, they still retained their Shinto beliefs. Second, all Shinto cults
believe in Kami (“the divine”) Individual clans worshipped a single Kam ....
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