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Which mountain in Japan is regarded sacred in the National Shinto religion?
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January 21, 2008 11:29AM
Mount Fuji : Fujiyama
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What mountain in japan is regarded sacred in national Shinto religion?

Shintoism is an animist-Buddhist religious combo. While there
are separate temples for Shinto priests and the various Buddhist
sects, the national religion is a combo of the two ideologies. As
such, their religion reveres nature, such that any ancient/
especially beautiful part of nature holds a kami. This is why
Shinto shrines are often build out in the wilderness, so that
prayers and offerings can be made to the local kami which live
there. So there are many, many kami in Japan (kami means God, by
the way), but the most recognizable natural feature of Japan would
be mt. Fuji, with its associated shrine(s) and kami.
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