Shinto
(ˈʃɪntəʊ)
Also Sin-to, Sintu, -oo.
[Japanese, f. Chinese shin tao way of the gods.]
1. The native religious system of Japan, the central belief of which is that the mikado is the direct descendant of the sun-goddess and that implicit obedience is due to him.
| 1727 tr. Kæmpfer's Hist. Japan I. 203 Sinto..is the Idol-worship, as of old established in the Country. 1829 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XX. 474/2 The first..Faith of the Japanese, is that of the Sin-to. 1875 N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 282 The abolition of Buddhism and the establishment of pure Shinto. 1906 Athenæum 19 May 602/3 Of pure Shinto ancestor-worship was no part, while phallism in a very pronounced form was intimately associated with it. |
b. attrib.
| 1727 tr. Kæmpfer's Hist. Japan I. 207 The whole System of the Sintos Divinity. Ibid., The Sintosju or adherents of the Sintos Religion. 1829 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XX. 475/2 The Sin-syu, or maintainers of the Sin-to creed. 1880 E. J. Reed Japan I. 47 The worship of the Shinto gods. 1888 L. Oliphant Epis. in Adv. 222 Two Buddhist or Sintoo shrines, perched upon pinnacles of rock. |
c. adj. = shintoistic.
| 1904 Sladen Playing the Game i. xii, The idea of the Kami..was Shinto rather than Buddhistic. |
2. An adherent of Shinto beliefs.
| 1829 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XX. 477/1 The Gods worshipped by the Sin-tos are principally..departed Spirits deified. 187. Ripley & Dana Amer. Cycl. IX. 537 (Cass.) The Shintos believe in a past life, and they live in fear and reverence of the spirits of the dead. |
Hence ˈShintoism = Shinto 1; ˈShintoist = Shinto 2; Shintoˈistic a., belonging to or characteristic of Shinto; ˈShintoize v., trans., to render Shintoistic.
| 1727 tr. Kæmpfer's Hist. Japan I. 226 Orthodox Sintoists go in Pilgrimage to Isje once a year. 1857 R. Tomes Amer. in Japan xiv. 337 The prevailing religions of the Japanese are Buddhism and Sintooism. 1863 Chamb. Encycl. V. 686/1 The minor deities of Sintuism are very numerous. 1875 N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 296 Buddhism..and the bakufu were, in the eyes of a Shintoist, all one and the same. 1889 E. Arnold Seas & Lands xiv. (1895) 218 Pure Shintoism does not admit of any external decoration or images. 1893 in Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 453 A pilgrimage to various..Shintoistic and Buddhistic temples. 1895 W. E. Griffis Relig. Japan vii. 212 Is Japanese Buddhism really Shintoized Buddhism, or Buddhaized Shinto? |