Tradition Institution East Asian traditions

Shinto

神道教 zh 神道 ja 신토 ko

A polytheistic and animistic religion originating in Japan

Also called Shintoism, Shintō, Shindo

Explore the branches

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Branches · 11

Many paths. Shared histories.

11 branches recorded under Shinto, one step down, as the records give them.

What this means

Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.

Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Recorded as a branch of

folk religion

Shinto A polytheistic and animistic religion originating in Japan

Traditions whose own records say they belong to it

3 traditions name Shinto as their own — an affiliation, so kept apart from the tree.

Overview

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At a glance

Kind: Tradition · Institution
Native names: 神道教 Chinese神道 Japanese신토 Korean
Also called: Shintoism, Shintō, Shindo
Collection: East Asian traditions
Evidence: 7 statements on this recordImported 7
Wikidata: Q812767 ↗In 153 Wikipedia languages

What this page is not

Not a list of beliefs everyone in it held, and not a map of adherents.

What this means

A tradition is not a list of beliefs held by everyone in it, and an affiliation recorded on a person is not that person’s belief in every period of their life.

Nothing here is a map of adherents. Where people practised a tradition, and how many, needs a dataset with its own methodology, and this site does not have one — see the atlas for what it does show.

Figures · 9

Begin with a figure

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 9 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Texts · 1

Texts and teachings

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

Where a date is shown it is when the text was written — the source’s clock, never the time of what it tells.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Text
Engishiki Jinmyōchō
List of Shinto shrines from 927

Places · 46

Places and sites

What this means

Records whose own statements name this tradition — 46 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.

A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.