Shintō

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.

   “The number of Shinto deities is very great. The Yengishiki enumerates 3,132 officially recognized shrines, and although the same Gods are reckoned more than once, as being worshipped in different places, still their name is legion.”

2. sıfat Of or pertaining to, Shintoism.
3. özel isim Alternative spelling of Shinto.

   “Lost in the splendor of Buddhist show, Shintō lay obscured thus for a millenium; lingering chiefly as a twilight of popular superstition.”