Shinto

Definitions

1. Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
2. Alternative spelling of Shinto.
   alt-of, alternative

Equivalents

Examples

“The number⟳ of Shinto deities is very great. The Yengishiki enumerates 3,132 officially recognized shrines, and although the same Gods are reckoned more than once, as being worshipped in different places, still their name⟳ is legion.”

“Lost in the splendor of Buddhist show⟳, Shintō lay⟳ obscured thus for a millenium; lingering chiefly as a twilight of popular superstition.”

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