Shinto Definition

shĭntō
noun
A principal religion of Japan, with emphasis upon the worship of nature and of ancestors and ancient heroes and upon the divinity of the emperor: prior to 1945, the state religion.
Webster's New World
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Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.

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Origin of Shinto

  • From Japanese 神道 (しんとう Shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (ʒin-dáu "ways of the gods"), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (Cə-lin kə-lˤuʔ "ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune or fate]").

    From Wiktionary

  • Japanese shintō shin god (from Middle Chinese sfiin) (also the source of Mandarin shén spirit, god) tō, dō art, way aikido

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Shinto Sentence Examples

  • Roads constructed for the benefit of Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, or to facilitate the cultivation of rice-fields and arable land.

  • Expanses of white gravel are seen in other types of spaces in Japanese landscape design, such as entrances to palaces; in the Shinto tradition it symbolizes purified space.

  • In Japan of the 12th century, samurai warriors were well versed in the arts, and might easily have used origami during the course of Shinto worship or as a form of artistic expression.

  • There are several Buddhist temples adorned with dragon motifs, and dragons also decorate Shinto shrines.

  • This is possibly because, as a Shinto nation, the Japanese still implicitly keep goblins and house spirits with them.

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