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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 recover “Japanese char ....
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.... Kami refers to the gods of Heaven, Earth, and the
Underworld. But Kami also are all those things that have divinity in them to
some degree. Third, all Shinto involve some sort of shrine worship, the most
important was the Izumo Shrine on the coast of the Japan Sea. Originally, these
shrines were himorogi (unpolluted land surrounded by trees) or iwasaka
(unpolluted land surrounded by stones). Shinto shrines are usually single rooms
raised off the ground, with religious objects placed inside, .... |
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