Shintoism in History

Shintoism was burned in dozens of Japanese cities. This is the beginning of Chinese New Year, January 15th. Prior to the Second World War, the Japanese emperor had ignited two fires at the four corners of his palace to pay homage to Vulkankaguchi. Today, the temple across the country commemorates the Balkan and continues to celebrate the fire festival known as Doujin Festival to pursue affection. Shintoism is not an ordinary religion. From a modern perspective, it is similar to many modern pagan religious views such as magic, but in a sense it includes ideas such as animism, shamanism, the existence of the spiritual world. Taoism is different from us

Kato divided the history of Shinto into three periods and called it "period of lower nature" during the first period. 21 In the early days of Shinto, people thought that everything was a soul or spiritual 2 . Before it developed into the "spirit" of fire, it was itself "deified" like "physical fire". Kato explained that this is an evolution from animation to animism. When things began to develop their own spirit, God and goddess began to appear. Goddess of the Sun, God of Moon and God of Storm ("Ocean Trio"), and Conversion of Religion to Polytheism - This is the second era in history. Along with the development of God 25 stories of this "intimate" complex relationship, the goddess of the squat fought with her brothers and the god of rain

This article shows how the Japanese government (1868-1912) during the Meiji era promoted the Shinto of your country in order to enhance nationalism, the identity of the nation state, and full support for democracies I am focusing. And insisted on his legality. Utilizing the background of Shinto's historical and spiritual development, this paper also revealed that the Shinto beliefs of the Meiji era and the post-Meiji era to faith including super nationalists, anti-Buddhists, and traditional fundamentalists It shows that it developed. The government is enthusiastic about establishing a common identity with the unified Japanese culture using Shinto to prove their racial superiority and national advantage over assertion of Japan's unity. However, the government influenced Shinto religion using its essential ethnocentricism, thus promoting the resurgence of early national research fanatics.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan tried to reform its home country into a constitutional state like the European Constitution. Emperor, Buddhism, Shinto were officially separated, Shinto was designated as a national religion. Under the Constitution, it is clearly stipulated that the emperor is "sacred and inviolable" (Japanese: Emperor, all crowned as sacred, translit.tennou wa shinsei nishite okasu bekarazu). In the era of Hirohito, the status of the emperor was further promoted to a living God (Japanese: current god, translit.Arahito gami). When the current constitution was drafted, it stopped at the end of World War II. (See Ningen-sengen)