ryobu-shinto

Updated: May 20, 2025

Very rarely are images to be seen upon a kamidana: for primitive Shintoism excluded images rigidly as Jewish or Mohammedan law; and all Shinto iconography belongs to a comparatively modern era especially to the period of Ryobu-Shinto and must be considered of Buddhist origin.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : Second Series