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Early kami worship
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From prehistoric times the Japanese have revered animistic spirits and deities called kami . Eventually the worship of kami developed into a religious system known as Shinto or “the kami way.” The two Chinese characters used in Japan for writing “Shinto” had been used for centuries in China to refer to the supernatural or the mysterious. Adopted in Japan at the end of the sixth century A.D. , these characters were employed to distinguish native kami worship from Buddhism (the Buddha way), recently imported from the Asian continent. Early sources suggest that Shinto was then synonomous with the old word kamunagara , which denoted a “way” handed down by the kami themselves without human revision. By the time that Japan's native religion was identified as Shinto, kami worship had moved beyond awe of natural forces to institutionalized rituals believed to ensure protection and prosperity for the clans ( uji ), and to provide religious sanction for the clan chieftains and territorial rulers. This chapter will therefore be devoted mainly to showing how kami beliefs and practices, while retaining their animistic core, moved from simple to complex forms.
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“Besides blessing a particular Buddhist temple, a Shinto deity often had a shrine built directly within the precincts of the temple grounds and was even given a form of Buddhahood.”
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“Compromises also included such practices as substituting Shinto ritual objects for bones of the Buddha in the treasures buried beneath pagodas (See Matsumae, 1993; Sonoda, 1993;”
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“development as a nation may perhaps be best paraphrased as follows: (1) unification of often warring petty kingdoms (along with their local myth, legend and lore) through (2) cooperative efforts of common people in various ways such as cultivating rice (using celestial signs and allegories for seasonal determination of planting and harvesting as well as agriculturally based festivals) in order to”
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“From this paradigm, three primary aspects emerge: linealism, vitalism, and optimism.”
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- Takeshi, M., & Goodwin, J.
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- kami worship, Shinto, animism, prehistoric Japan, Japanese religion, ritual, religious organizations, Buddhism, indigenous deities
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