sintor

Updated: May 5, 2025

The visitor may still see whole streets in Tokio without a single inhabitant, the former residences of the daimios' followers, and the aspect is dreary in the extreme. In addition to his temporal functions, the mikado has always been the great high priest of the Sintor faith.

J. J. Smith - In Eastern Seas : Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83