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The Ancient World

The origins and Japanese mythology Shinto , Buddhism , Confucianism , and to a lesser extent Tooism and Christianity , have all in thier different ways exerted a profound influence on Japanese culture and the spiritual lives of individual Japanese

Of these , what later came to be known of Shinto , or the Way of the Gods , is the oldest and deepest spiritual influence

Originating in the dawn of Japanese history , Shinto has touched every aspect of Japanese emotional experience and shaped Japanese responses to nature , life and death , community life , social organization , political ideology , festivals and aesthetics

In the 18th and early 19th centuries Shinto formed the core of a movement of national revival , the National Learning movement , that sought to define the features of Japanese culture that made it distinct from China and the West in terms of the Japanese classics and Shinto virtues of simplicity and purity of heart

Politicized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and turned into a nationalist state cult supporting the ideological edifice of veneration for the imperial house , Shinto was purged of political connections in the postwar occupation reforms

Since 1945 shrines have returned to their earlier roles as centers of community festivals and family rituals

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