Shintoism

Meanings

proper noun

The Shinto religion of Japan.
The origin of the Doll Festival reaches back to the crude days of Shintoism.
1925, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, A Daughter of the Samurai, page 237

nounthe ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors

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religion faithreligious belief

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