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Shintoism, the indigenous religious practice of Japan. Even with an over 2000 year history Shinto has never been easy to define, the word Shinto wasn’t even used much until the seventeenth century. Shinto has its own shrines, priests, gods and rituals. Everything you'd expect from a religion but today while over 80% of Japanese people participate in Shinto practices only 3-4% identify themselves as believers in Shinto and many Japanese people practice Shinto alongside Buddhism without any sense of contradiction.

So what is Shinto? Why are Sumo wrestlers so salty? And what can the god of hair do for you? Well, let's find out.

This video was researced and co-written by Clark Van Horne.

0:00-1:16 Intro

1:16-5:11 Creation Story

5:11-5:45 Etymology

5:45-9:40 Kami

9:40-11:35 Purification

11:35-14:56 Shrines

14:56-16:09 Festivals

16:09-19:05 State Shinto

19:05-22:41 Conclusion

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Sources and Further Reading:

Boyd, James, and Ron Williams

1999 Artful Means: An Aesthetic View of Shinto Purification Rituals. Journal of ritual studies 13(1):37-52.

Breen, John, and Mark Teeuwen

2010 A new history of Shinto. Chichester;Malden, MA;: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hardacre, Helen

2017 Shinto. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kamata, Tōji, and Gaynor Sekimori

2017 Myth and deity in Japan: the interplay of Kami and Buddhas. Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture.

Katō, Genchi, and Iinkai Nihon Yunesuko Kokunai

1988 A historical study of the religious development of Shinto. New York: Greenwood Press.

Kuroda, Toshio

1981 Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion. The Journal of Japanese studies 7(1):1-21.

Littleton, C. Scott

2002 Shinto. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Macwilliams, Mark Wheeler, and Michiaki Okuyama

2020 Defining Shinto: a reader. Abingdon, Oxon;New York, NY;: Routledge.

Ō, Yasumaro, and Gustav Heldt

2014 The Kojiki: an account of ancient matters. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ono, Sokyo, and William Woodard

2011 Shinto the Kami Way. New York: Tuttle Publishing.

Picken, Stuart D. B.

2011 Historical dictionary of Shinto. Volume no. 104. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press.

Rots, Aike

2015 Sacred Forests, Sacred Nation: The Shinto Environmentalist Paradigm and the Rediscovery of "Chinju no Mori". Japanese journal of religious studies 42(2):205-233.

Teeuwen, Mark

2002 From Jindō to Shinto: A Concept Takes Shape. Japanese journal of religious studies 29(3/4):233-263.

Teeuwen, Mark, et al.

2003 Shinto, a short history. London;New York;: RoutledgeCurzon.

Yamakage, Motohisa

2012 The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Heart. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

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