Yoshida Kanetomo's fifteenth-century system, which made Shinto the root of which Buddhism and Confucianism were branches and flowers, and governed shrine ranks for centuries.
Yoshida Shinto was the first attempt to systematize Shinto as a doctrine, and its house licensed the shrines of Japan until the Meiji restoration ended its ascendancy.
Yoshida Shinto across the site
Sources
Primary
- Yoshida Kanetomo, Yuiitsu Shinto Myobo Yosho (1484-1485).
Secondary
- Bernhard Scheid, studies of Yoshida Shinto.