PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Shinto Shrine, Matthew C. Perry, Yasukuni Shrine

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO239
• Professor: Angela Brkich

Document Summary

Late tokugawa / edo lots of instability (as compared with early) Daimyos were accumulating a lot of resources and samurai loyalty and started to fight back against the shogunate. then commodore matthew perry comes to japan is like you have to. Separation of buddhist and shinto spaces, deities. National identity. but emperor was seen as a kami so it was difficult to take power. the first thing the meiji did was formalized and furthered the separation of buddhist and shinto. Started developing shinto as national religion of japan of antiquity. Forced every cultic area to be redefined as either shinto or buddhist. deities housed and shrined in these places had to be defined as a kami or bodhisattva, undoing that principle from before where kami"s were bodisattvas. A lot of temples were taken down. This meant that shinto was not a religion anymore, it was.