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Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits. quotations examples
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.
1905, W.G. Aston, Shinto: The Way of the Gods, page 66
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Of or pertaining to, Shintoism. examples