Crossword clues for shinto
shinto
- Thus penning clue for religion
- Eastern faith
- Religion of East
- Worship of spirits known as "kami"
- Longtime religion of Japan
- Japanese belief
- "The way of the gods"
- Traditional religion of Japan
- Shrine-based native Japanese religion
- Pacific Rim religion
- Literally, "the way of the gods"
- Japanese for "way of the gods"
- Japan's oldest religion
- Indigenous Japanese religion
- Frequent theme in Japanese pop culture
- Far East religion
- Faith that venerates kami
- Anime inspiration
- Ancestral religion
- Amaterasu worshiper's faith
- "Way of the gods" belief
- "Manga" inspiration
- Literally, "way of the gods"
- Religion of Japan
- The way of the gods
- Eastern religion meaning "way of the gods"
- Literally, the way of the gods
- Japanese for "the way of the gods"
- Japanese religion
- Japan's "way of the gods" religion
- Religion with public shrines
- The native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan
- Primarily nature and ancestor worship including a chief deity from whom the emperor is believed to be descended
- The indigenous polytheistic religion of Japan lacking organized teachings
- Japanese faith
- A Japanese religion
- Samurai's faith
- Native religion of Japan
- Mum's mad about religion
- Quiet and enthusiastic about religion
- Asian religion - no hits
- Second husband knowledgeable about Japanese religion
- Faith very receptive to suggestion
- Heads of State highly enthusiastic about religion
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shinto \Shin"to\, Shintiism \Shin"ti*ism\, n. [Chin. shin god + tao way, doctrine.] One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes. [Written also Sintu, and Sintuism.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
native religious system of Japan, 1727, from Chinese shin tao "way of the gods," from shin "god, gods, spirit" + tao "way, path, doctrine." Related: Shintoism.
Wikipedia
, also called kami-no-michi, is a Japanese religion. It focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past. Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written historical records of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki in the 8th century. Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified "Shinto religion", but rather to a collection of native beliefs and mythology. Shinto today is a term that applies to the religion of public shrines devoted to the worship of a multitude of gods ( kami), suited to various purposes such as war memorials and harvest festivals, and applies as well to various sectarian organizations. Practitioners express their diverse beliefs through a standard language and practice, adopting a similar style in dress and ritual, dating from around the time of the Nara and Heian periods (8th to 12th centuries AD).
The word Shinto ("way of the gods") was adopted, originally as Jindō or Shindō, from the written Chinese Shendao (神道, ), combining two kanji: , meaning "spirit" or kami; and , meaning a philosophical path or study (from the Chinese word dào). The oldest recorded usage of the word Shindo is from the second half of the 6th century. Kami are defined in English as "spirits", "essences" or "gods", referring to the energy generating the phenomena. Since Japanese language does not distinguish between singular and plural, kami refers to the divinity, or sacred essence, that manifests in multiple forms: rocks, trees, rivers, animals, places, and even people can be said to possess the nature of kami. Kami and people are not separate; they exist within the same world and share its interrelated complexity.
Shinto is the largest religion in Japan, practiced by nearly 80% of the population, yet only a small percentage of these identify themselves as "Shintoists" in surveys. This is because "Shinto" has different meanings in Japan: most of the Japanese attend Shinto shrines and beseech kami without belonging to an institutional "Shinto" religion, and since there are no formal rituals to become a member of "folk Shinto", "Shinto membership" is often estimated counting those who join organised Shinto sects. Shinto has 81,000 shrines and 85,000 priests in the country.
According to Inoue (2003):
In modern scholarship, the term is often used with reference to kami worship and related theologies, rituals and practices. In these contexts, "Shinto" takes on the meaning of "Japan’s traditional religion", as opposed to foreign religions such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and so forth.
Shinto is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion.
Shinto or Shintō may also refer to:
- Shintō, Gunma, a village in Gunma Prefecture, Japan
- Shinto (character) or Tenshinhan, a character in Dragon Ball media
- A Javanese spelling of the Hindu goddess Sita.
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.