{"id":556,"date":"2005-11-09T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2005-11-09T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T19:28:00","slug":"556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Japanese deities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of the interaction between the native Japanese religion <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shinto\">Shint<\/a>o and missionary Buddhism, which came from China, was an attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shinto#Shinto_and_Buddhism\">correlate Shinto deities<\/a> with the various past and future Buddhas of Mahayana (Northern) Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onmarkproductions.com\/html\/buddhism.shtml\">&#8220;Gods of Japan&#8221; photo website<\/a> has both deities (&#8220;kami&#8221;> and Buddhas, in great detail.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/shinto\" rel=\"tag\">Shinto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/polytheism\" rel=\"tag\">Polytheism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese deities Part of the interaction between the native Japanese religion Shinto and missionary Buddhism, which came from China, was an attempt to correlate Shinto deities with the various past and future Buddhas of Mahayana (Northern) Buddhism. The &#8220;Gods of Japan&#8221; photo website has both deities (&#8220;kami&#8221;> and Buddhas, in great detail. 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One was this article in The Atlantic: \"Tidying Up With Marie Kondo Isn\u2019t Really a Makeover Show,\" about the Japanese author of\u00a0 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, who now has a show on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"animism\"","block_context":{"text":"animism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=animism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&MarketPlace=US&ASIN=1607747308&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&tag=soutrocknatub-20","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2461,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2461","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":3},"title":"Were the Gods Angry with Japan?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Adrian Ivakhiv blogs on religious responses to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. 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