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    1) Shintoism is the native religion of Japan that centers around worship of kami (spirits or gods). 2) Some of the major kami in Shintoism include Amaterasu, the sun goddess; Izanami and Izanagi, the god and goddess who created Japan; and Inari, the god of industry and agriculture. 3) Shintoism is a very local religion, with devotees focused on their local shrines rather than the religion as a whole. Many Japanese have small household shrines.

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    1) Shintoism is the native religion of Japan that centers around worship of kami (spirits or gods). 2) Some of the major kami in Shintoism include Amaterasu, the sun goddess; Izanami and Izanagi, the god and goddess who created Japan; and Inari, the god of industry and agriculture. 3) Shintoism is a very local religion, with devotees focused on their local shrines rather than the religion as a whole. Many Japanese have small household shrines.

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    “WAY OF THE SPIRITS”

    7 SHINTO KAMI
    THE CHRONICLES OF YOU’LL M E E T
    S H I N T O I S M
    I N J A P A N
    KAMI
    In English, the word Shinto can
    sometimes be translated as
    Amaterasu is the goddess of the sun, she
    "the way of the kami"
    Kami-worship was commonly seen
    is a major kami and a central figure in
    Shinto. NO
    as part of Japanese Buddhism
    in medieval Japan, with the kami
    Izanami and Izanagi Legend, has it that
    this god and goddess stirred the seas with a
    MICHI
    themselves being also viewed as
    spear, and the mud which dripped from the Shintoism
    Buddhas.
    tip became the first island of Japan.
    Japanese devotion to unseen holy
    Inari is the Shinto god of industry,
    forces and entities called kami, to
    prosperity, finance, and agriculture.
    shrines, and to different
    practices is the core of Shinto. Hachiman is the god of war and military
    Shinto is not a way for the universe arts, helping to guide warriors on their way
    to be explained. Rituals that to mastery.
    encourage human beings to Tenjin is the kami of education, literature,
    connect with kami are what and scholarship.
    matters. The Kami are neither
    gods nor gods. Raijin is the kami of thunder and lightning,
    and Fujin is the kami of wind. Together,
    Shinto is a very local religion, in they are the gods of storms and weather.
    which devotees are likely to be
    concerned with their local shrine Benzaiten is a Shinto kami borrowed from
    rather than the religion as a whole. Buddhist belief and one of the Seven Lucky
    Many Japanese will have a tiny Gods of Japan.
    shrine-altar in their homes.
    Beginning in the 18th century,
    Shinto was revived as an
    THECONTEMPORARY S
    important national religion through
    the writings and teachings of a
    HINTO
    succession of notable scholars,
    including Mabuchi, Motoori Before 1946 Shinto took two forms.
    Norinaga, and Hirata Shrine Shinto, a patriotic
    Atsutane. Motivated by nationalistic cult, identified with and
    nationalistic sentiments that took financially supported by the imperial
    the form of reverence for Japanese Government. And Sectarian
    antiquity and hatred for ideas and
    WHERE THE Shinto, a general term for a number
    practices of foreign origin, these
    of sects founded by private persons
    TALE UNFOLD men prepared the way for the
    and based on1946
    various interpretations
    disestablishment of Buddhism and Before Shinto took two forms.
    ofShrine
    traditional Shinto.
    Shinto, a patriotic nationalistic
    the adoption of Shinto as the
    The name Shinto was stateofreligion
    Until the defeat Japan in cult, identified with and financially
    developed for the native World War II, these beliefs supported by the imperial Government.
    religion in the late 6th century were of the utmost And Sectarian Shinto, a general
    AD to differentiate it from importance in assuring term for a number of sects founded by
    popular support for the military private persons and based on various
    Buddhism and
    expansion of the Japanese interpretations of traditional Shinto.
    Confucianism, which had
    been introduced from China. Empire.
    In the early 1990s more than 110
    Shinto was rapidly
    million Japanese participated in the
    overshadowed by Buddhism,
    various Shinto sects, but those who
    and in a previous state of life, THE WAY
    professed Shinto as their sole or
    the native gods were
    OF THE major religion numbered only about
    commonly known as
    SPIRITS 3.4 million. The Shinto sects have
    embodiments of Buddha. approximately 101,000 priests and
    Buddhist priests became about 81,000 shrines.
    Shinto shrine custodians and
    founded their own ornaments,
    images, and ritual.

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