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*''Born: [[1435]]''
*''Died: [[1511]]''
*''Japanese'': [[吉田]] 兼倶 ''(Yoshida Kanetomo)''
Yoshida Kanetomo was the founder of the [[Yoshida Shinto|Yoshida school]] of [[Shinto]], which later became dominant in the [[Edo period]].
The standard understanding of ''[[honji suijaku]]'' up until Yoshida's time was that the ''[[kami]]'' were local Japanese manifestations of [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] entities, which were universal. Kanetomo argued that, to the contrary, it is the ''kami'' who are the true forms of the spirits (or deities), and Buddhist entities which are merely alternative manifestations of the ''kami''.
As he wrote, "Buddhism and [[Confucianism]] are only secondary products of Shinto. ... Buddhism came east only to reveal clearly that our nation is the trunk and the roots of these three nations [Japan, China, and India]."<ref>Rawski, 212.</ref>
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==References==
*Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 212.
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*''Died: [[1511]]''
*''Japanese'': [[吉田]] 兼倶 ''(Yoshida Kanetomo)''
Yoshida Kanetomo was the founder of the [[Yoshida Shinto|Yoshida school]] of [[Shinto]], which later became dominant in the [[Edo period]].
The standard understanding of ''[[honji suijaku]]'' up until Yoshida's time was that the ''[[kami]]'' were local Japanese manifestations of [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] entities, which were universal. Kanetomo argued that, to the contrary, it is the ''kami'' who are the true forms of the spirits (or deities), and Buddhist entities which are merely alternative manifestations of the ''kami''.
As he wrote, "Buddhism and [[Confucianism]] are only secondary products of Shinto. ... Buddhism came east only to reveal clearly that our nation is the trunk and the roots of these three nations [Japan, China, and India]."<ref>Rawski, 212.</ref>
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==References==
*Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 212.
<references/>
[[Category:Shinto]]
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
[[Category:Muromachi Period]]