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Shinto

noun

(Written also Sintu, and Sintuism)

The native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan.

The ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors. Synonym: Shintoism.

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"Shinto" Quotes from Famous Books

... Kasawara, came to me for the same purpose, and both are now working very hard at learning Sanskrit. Japan is supposed to contain 34,388,504 inhabitants, all of whom, with the exception of about 1 or 200,000 followers of the Shinto religion,(121) are Buddhists, divided into ten principal sects, the sect to which Mr. Bunyiu Nanjio belongs being that of the Shinshiu. One of the first questions which I asked Mr. Bunyiu Nanjio, when he came to read Sanskrit with ...

— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller

... Japanese are an experimental nation, and before adopting Buddhism nationally they ordered one or two prominent courtiers to adopt it, with a view to seeing whether they prospered more or less than the adherents of the traditional Shinto religion.[41] After some vicissitudes, the experiment was held to have favoured the foreign religion, which, as a Court religion, acquired more prestige than Shinto, although the latter was never ousted, and remained the chief religion of the peasantry until the thirteenth century. ...

— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell

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