Yoshida Kanetomo

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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.

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