Shinto

Church Directory · Non-Christian

Shinto is the indigenous way of Japan, honoring the kami at shrines and binding community, nature, and ancestry together.

Organizations in This Tradition

Organization Folk Shinto the unorganized practice of shrine custom carried by households and villages. Organization Jinja Shinto shrine Shinto, gathered since 1946 in the Association of Shinto Shrines. Organization Sect Shinto the recognized Shinto-derived movements, such as Konkokyo and Tenrikyo, of which Tenrikyo is now often counted separately.

Religious Art & Images

Art Tradition Shinto The torii, the shintai, and sacred landscape: aniconic in emphasis rather than in principle. Art Entry The Ise Grand Shrine The most sacred shrine in Shinto is a plain cypress building that is torn down and rebuilt, identically, every twenty years — and has been for some thirteen centuries. Traditionally founded in remote antiquity; rebuilding cycle from the late 7th century Art Entry The Shintai Mirror Behind the doors of a Shinto shrine sits an object no one looks at — a mirror, sword, or stone that is the seat of the kami. The pictured mirror is of the kind enshrined; the enshrined mirror itself has never been photographed. Kofun-period mirrors, c. 300–538; the enshrined type far older

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