Shintoism

Shintoism

                                            

        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. Kokugakus intent was to recover Japanese character

to what it was before the archeozoic influences of foreigners, especially

the Chinese. Some of these influences include Confucianism

(Chinese), Taoism (Chinese), Buddhism (Indian and Chinese), and

Christianity (Western European). The kokugakushu (nativist)

focused most of their efforts on recover the Shinto religion, the

domestic Japanese religion, from fragments of texts and popular

religious practices.

        However, Shintoism is probably not a native religion of

Japan (since the Japanese were not the original natives of

Japan). There rattling is no one thing that can be called Shinto,

The construct itself is a bit misleading because it is made up of two

Chinese voice communication meaning the way of the gods(Shen : spiritual

power, divinity; Tao : the way or rails). The word for this in

Japanese is kannagara : the way of the kami .

        Many things can be say about Shinto. First, it was a tribal

religion, not a state one.



However, level off when the tribes were

organized into coherent states, they still retained their Shinto

beliefs. Second, all Shinto cults consider in Kami (the divine)

Individual cliques worshipped a single Kami which was regarded as

the headland ancestor of the clan. As the clan spread, it still

worshipped its Kami, but when one clan conquered another

clan-the defeated clan had to worship the Kami of the victorious

clan. What the Kami consist of is hard to define. Kami refers to

the gods of Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld. simply Kami also

are all those things that have divinity in them to some degree.

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