Shinto

[ US /ˈʃɪnˌtoʊ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or characteristic of Shintoism
    Shinto temples
NOUN
  1. the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors
  2. the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan
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How To Use Shinto In A Sentence

  • The trees around a Shintô shrine are specially under the protection of the god to whom the altar is dedicated; and, in connection with them, there is a kind of magic still respected by the superstitious, which recalls the waxen dolls, through the medium of which sorcerers of the middle ages in Europe, and indeed those of ancient Greece, as Theocritus tells us, pretended to kill the enemies of their clients. Tales of Old Japan
  • But when at last in the ninth and tenth centuries native Japanese Buddhists popularized its doctrines and adopted into its theogony the deities of the aboriginal religion, now known as Shinto, Buddhism became the religion of the people, and filled the land with its great temples, praying priests, and gorgeous rituals. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
  • Shinto, and also in many Buddhist, temple grounds, is planted the tree called enoki [7] which is sacred to him, and in which he is supposed by the peasantry to dwell; for they pray before the enoki always to Kojin. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
  • The birth of the Shinto as an independent religion has relation with the Confucian concept of dô of the Edo period that “influenced the word Shinto, imbuing it with the meaning of the way, as a political or moral norm” p. Usage of ‘dou’ (道) in Japan.
  • Ryobu (Shinto) Shizuoka, adj. toyo ryokan shogaol Toyohashi, adj. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
  • Shinto temples
  • They are also unified conceptually by the fact that all have to do with water spirits and the symbolism of Japan's indigenous animistic religion, Shinto.
  • Shinto reinforced already strongly-established national notions of spiritual discipline and physical fitness.
  • According to Shinto beliefs, a woman is made impure by her menstrual cycles, meaning she should not even touch the sumo ring, let alone fight in it - a rule true in professional sumo even today.
  • Since the restoration, and what may be called the disestablishment of Buddhism, the shrine of Iyeyasu has been shorn of all its glories of ritual and its magnificent Buddhist paraphernalia; the 200 priests who gave it splendour are scattered, and six Shinto priests alternately attend upon it as much for the purpose of selling tickets of admission as for any priestly duties. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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