Shinto

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Shinto
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Shinto

• Shinto is the major religion in Japan.
• The word shinto means Way of the gods.
• They believe in the spirits known as Kami.

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Shinto

• Cleanliness is the core of shinto belief.
• Its followers observe a ritual called Misogi,
  which shows the value of cleanliness.

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Shinto

• The gods and goddesses of nature temporarily live
  in the shintai or things or creatures
  shintoists worship such as trees, rocks and
  ravens.

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Shinto

• Amaterasu the sun goddess as their principal god.
• They believed that amaterasu was the ancestor of
  the imperial family.

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Shinto Doctrines

• Kojiki Records of Ancient matters.
• Nihonji Chronicles of Japan.

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Shinto Doctrines

• According to these books, Japan was created by
  the god izanagi and the goddess izanami.

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Nippon

• Nippon, which means the land of the rising sun.
• Nippon was derived in the chinese word Jih-Pen, a
  chinese word meaning the coming of the sun.

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Nippon

• The red circle on the on the on a white
  background on the Japanese flag represents the
  rising sun, which manifests their belief in
  divine origin.