middle-lower

Updated: July 7, 2025

Thus was formed the Ryobu Shinto a mixed religion founded on a compromise between the old creed and the new, and hence the tolerant ideas on theological subjects of most of the middle-lower classes, who worship indifferently at the shrines of either faith." The third period began about 1700. It was introduced by the scholarly study of history.

Sidney Lewis Gulick - Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic