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100
What Shinto people look up to
What are spirits?
100
The country where Shinto was started
What is Japan
100
The Emperor who restored Shinto, and re-established their identity, when he ruled in 1868 to 1912
Who was Emperor Meiji?
100
When people visit a shrine
What is Omairi?
100
The first religion to give Shinto competition, in Japan, in 552
What is Buddhism
200
What people become after death, to protect their local shrine
What is a family spirit?
200
500 BCE
When was Shinto started?
200
The first Japanese Emperor to become Buddhist
Who is Emperor Kotoku?
200
The only way to become pure
What is cleansing the soul?
200
4 Million
How many people practice Shinto, around the world?
300
This will lead to bad luck, and is caused by doing bad deeds
What is impurity?
300
The founder of Shinto
Who is nobody?
300
The ruler of heaven, the highest ranked deity
Who is the sun goddess?
300
Their name is carved into the side of their shrine
What happens at birth?
300
75-90%
What is the percentage of Japanese people who are legally Shinto?
400
Descendants of the sun goddess Amaterasu-o-mi-kami
What are Emperors?
400
What Shin Tao means, in English
What is the way of the gods?
400
Izanagi-no-mikoto and Izanami-no-mikoto
Who gave birth to the Japanese islands?
400
Nothing happens. Their families are allowed a Buddhist ceremony, though
What happens after death?
400
What brought the disestablishment of Shinto
What is World War 2?
500
Japan is the country of the gods, and her inhabitants are the descendants of gods, and Between the Japanese people and those from other nations, there is a difference of kind, rather than degree
What are the doctrines, which Hirata wrote, in 1700
500
The religion that it is thought that Shinto is based off of
What is Animism?
500
The deities of the Japanese clans
Who are the children of Izanagi-no-mikoto and Izanami-no-mikoto?
500
The sun goddess became very upset at her brother so she hid in a cave. Ame-no-uzeme began to dance and create a noisy commotion in order to entice the sun goddess to come out. The kami (gods) tricked Amaterasu by telling her there was a better sun goddess in the heavens. Amaterasu came out and light returned to the universe.
How did dancing in Shinto start?
500
Because the Shinto people felt that China was superior
Why did they write their collections of myths?they write their collections of myths?