Origins
Beliefs
100

When was evidence of Shinto practice first found?

2500 years ago!

100

Where Kami is found

Everywhere and in everything
200

Shinto is polytheistic because they believe in gods and spirits that pervade everything and anything. What do they call these spirits?

Kami!

200

The two original creators

Izanagi and Izanami

300

Shinto was being blended into which religion?

Buddhism!

300
The meaning of the word Kami

High or Superior

400

What form of Shinto was created due to government money being invested into Shinto shrines?

State Shinto!

400

The most significant Deity

Ameratsu

500
State Shinto was abolished due to the defeat in which event?

World War II

500
The deity of fire

Homu-subi

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