Longtime religion of Japan

Usage examples of shinto.

Japanese was an emotional, Shinto nature, and that Buddhist metaphysics and Confucian rationality should be rejected as alien.

Confucianism naturally imbued Japanese scholars with a greater or lesser degree of enthusiasm for the civilization of China: some became outright Sinophiles, and although other Confucian scholars of the early Tokugawa period, including Hayashi Razan, had gone beyond their study of Chinese philosophy to investigate Shinto and the Japanese tradition, Yamaga Soko was the first thinker of stature to claim the superiority of Japanese culture and ethical values over those of China.

During the early and middle seventh century the Japanese appear to have experimented with various ideas, drawn from Confucianism and Buddhism as well as Shinto, to justify imperial rule.

Of samurai origin, Soko earned a reputation as a brilliant scholar, delving into such varied subjects as Shinto, Buddhism, and Japanese poetry, as well as Confucianism, which he studied in Edo under Hayashi Razan.

Shinto theory and beliefs into militaristic and ultra-nationalistic propaganda designed to delude the Japanese people and lead them into wars of aggression.

The government-sponsored cult of state Shinto, a bulwark of emperor-centered ultranationalism, was abolished on December 15.

Shinto, a bulwark of emperor-centered ultranationalism, was abolished on December 15.

Yakuza, losing herself in the syncretic Shugendo Shinto sect in the mystical hills of Yoshino, where she might have remained but for a summons from her father.

Then, slowly, she took it out of Michael's hand, held it up against the Shinto bell cord.

There are, in Japanese martial philosophy - which incorporates many elements of both the Buddhist and Shinto religions - five cardinal signs: Ground, Water, Wind, Fire and the Void.

It lay on the eastern verge of an enormous forest of cryptomeria and pine within which the Shinto temple blossomed like some other-worldly flora whose grace of design, quiescence and natural humility instantly bewitched the Colonel's mind, speaking to him more eloquently than even the country's finest speakers the eternalness and dignity of the Japanese spirit.

Massive pillars of hand-hewn cedar were sunk into a facade of grainy, grey ferroconcrete, giving the impression that the stuff, while wet, had oozed up over some primeval Shinto frame.

But here amid the modem concrete shell of Karasumori Jinja, the soft nineteenthcentury light of lanterns cast a flight of hazy circles within the environs of the Shinto shrine.

Inside, there's a placid pond toward one end--the 777 is now so low that Randy can count the lily pads--a tiny Shinto temple hewn from black stone, and a little bamboo teahouse.

They love nature, and their simple religion - Shinto - is basically a form of nature worship.