Shintoとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowing from Japanese 神道 (Shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (MC ʑiɪn dɑu^X, “ways of the gods”), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (OC *hlin l'uːʔ, “ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune または fate]”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪn.təʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪn.toʊ/

固有名詞

Shinto

1. Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
   • 1905, W.G. Aston, Shinto: The Way of the Gods, page 66:

     The number of Shinto deities is very great. The Yengishiki enumerates 3,132 officially recognized shrines, and although the same Gods are reckoned more than once, as being worshipped in different places, still their name is legion.

等位語

• (religions) religion; Asatru,‎ Ayyavazhi,‎ Baháʼí Faith,‎ Bon,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Cheondoism,‎ Christianity,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Judaism,‎ Kimbanguism,‎ Odinism,‎ paganism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ Rodnovery,‎ Sanamahism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Taoism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yazidism,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion)}

派生語

• Shintoism
• Shintoist
• Shintoistic