shinto

____ means "shining in heaven"; goddess of the sun

____ is the stately ceremonial music of shinto

____ is the "male who invites" primoridial male parent god

______ is "female who invites" primordial female parent god. 

____ is a shinto shrine

____ is a spirit, god or goddess of shinto

______ is the earliest chronicle of japanese history

_____ is the second chronicle of japanese history

_____ is dramas performed in mask and costume, associated with shinto

____ is twisted rope, marking a sacred spot

______ is a gatelike structure that marks a shinto sacred place

shinto has no know person or group as it's ____. In fact its mysterious origins date back to the _____ and their stories of how the world came into being.

shinto seems to have arisen from a human awareness of the power of ____ and the need to be in _____ with it.

shinto retains elements of ____, _____, and _____.

shinto still exists in modern japan, a fact that is sometimes marked by a ____ tucked between concrete _____

the spirits that are worshipped include the spirits of ____, ____, and ____ such as the emperor for whom the meiji period is named who did so much to modernize japan.

the name shinto presents a problem. it is not a japanese term but emerged when ____ came from china to japan.

shinto also means "_____"

although japanase often think of themselves as a single "race" they apparently descended from several immigrant groups that came from the northwest, possibly ____ and ____ and from the south possibly from the _____.

Although the immigrant groups may have focused their primary worship on different natural forces such as the ____ and ___, it seems their traditions eventually mixed ultimately blending a large number of gods into a _____ and yeilding a single ____ myth.

in the beginning as the creation myth relates there was a _____ which came to be populated by several generations of deities or spirits called ____ possibly "sacred".

Inzangi and Izanami then gave birth to additional kami many of them nature deities. One of the nature deities was a ___ god. As a result of his birth, Izanami was horribly _____ and died and went to the underworld. 

____ is the spirit of the sun meaning "shining in heaven" who emerged after Izanagi had been crying and the spirit of the moon, _____. From his nostrils came the spirit of the wind ____, eventually the sun goddess ____ sent her grandson to bring order to the islands of japan. 

____ was the first human emperor of japan. As a result the imperial house mythically traces its origin back to the goddess of the ___.

Shinto adopted the buddhist practices of ____, ___, and ____

in the late ____ century the two religions were forced to disentangle themselves

in ___ a young man named ___ came to thr throne and assumed real rather than merely symbolic power. He was known to history as emperor ____

Empor meiji imported european and american experts to build up the governmental, military and educational systems. It was a turning point in Japanese history known as _____

the _____ means "crhoncile of ancient events" and the ____ means "Chronicle of japan"