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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." Kokugaku's intent was to recover "Japanese character" to
what it was before the early 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 recovering the Shinto
religion, the native 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 really is no one
thing that can be called "Shinto," The name itself is a bit misleading because
it is made up of two Chinese words meaning...

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