Yoshida Kanetomo
Yoshida Kanetomo ( Japanese吉田 兼 倶; * 1435 ; † 1511 ) was a religious reformer of Japan. He came from an old soothsayer family at the imperial court, the Yoshida or Urabe .
Yoshida brought the Kami ideas together in Japan. By which he founded Yoshida Shinto begins Shinto as distinct and coherent religion to exist. He emphasized that Shinto was the origin of everything and the most important thing for Japan, as well as that Shinto itself was superior to Buddhism and Confucianism.
literature
- Bernhard Scheid: The one and only way of the gods. Yoshida Kanetomo and the Invention of Shinto , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001. ISBN 3700129890 / ISBN 978-3-7001-2989-9 ; OCLC 186460367
Web links
- Itō Satoshi: "Yoshida Kanetomo" . In: Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugaku-in , April 15, 2006 (English)
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SURNAME | Yoshida Kanetomo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 吉田 兼 倶 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | religious reformer of Japan |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1435 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1511 |