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In Japan known as Kami-no-Michi, the Way of the Gods. Form of ancestor and nature worship which is indigenous religion of Japan.
Has its own style of architecture for numerous temples and shrines. The Torii arch is Shintō. The Kami are primarily personifications of the feeling of holiness which some things, as trees and waterfalls, give to the beholder; hence forces of nature.
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