# Shinto · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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The Canon · No. 029
Shinto
Kami no Michi; the way of the kami
c.500 BCE (prehistoric roots) – present · East Asian · Living · Japan
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.300 BCE–300 CE Yayoi period; rice agriculture and the ritual complex that becomes Shinto.
- c.538–552 CE Buddhism arrives from Korea; the court is split over adopting it.
- 712, 720 CE Kojiki and Nihon Shoki written, fixing the imperial descent from Amaterasu.
- c.9th–19th c. Shinbutsu-shugo — Shinto and Buddhism fuse almost completely, with kami understood as manifestations of buddhas. For a thousand years they are effectively one religion.
- 1868 CE Shinbutsu bunri. The Meiji government forcibly separates them, destroying Buddhist statuary in shrines, and constructs State Shinto around emperor worship.
- 1869 Yasukuni Shrine founded for the war dead.
- 1890 Imperial Rescript on Education binds loyalty, filial piety and the emperor's divinity into the school system.
- 1945 Occupation authorities abolish State Shinto; on 1 January 1946 Emperor Hirohito issues the Ningen-sengen, renouncing the claim to divinity.
- 1978–present Yasukuni enshrines convicted Class-A war criminals; official visits become a standing diplomatic dispute with China and Korea.
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