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The Tokugawa Shogunate had sanctioned Buddhism as a state religion.
A dew sexteenth-century Chiristian missionaries left a small following in Japan, but from 1600 until 1853, the countory was governed by the Tokugawa Shogunate banned Christianity, forbade travel overseas, and only allowed foreign trade in the port of Nagasaki with the Netherlands and China. Confucianism, with its emphasis on harmony, was the prevailing "state religion", although it coexisted with Shintoism, a religion that worshipped nature gods and that was personified by the emperor.
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: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)Buddhistic Shintō was popular for several centuries and was influential until its extinction at the Meiji Restoration.
The shogunate was the hereditary military dictatorship of Japan (1192–1867).
The Tokugawa Shogunate had sanctioned Buddhism as a state religion.
A dew sexteenth-century Chiristian missionaries left a small following in Japan, but from 1600 until 1853, the countory was governed by the Tokugawa Shogunate banned Christianity, forbade travel overseas, and only allowed foreign trade in the port of Nagasaki with the Netherlands and China. Confucianism, with its emphasis on harmony, was the prevailing "state religion", although it coexisted with Shintoism, a religion that worshipped nature gods and that was personified by the emperor.
Buddhistic Shintō was popular for several centuries and was influential until its extinction at the Meiji Restoration.
The shogunate was the hereditary military dictatorship of Japan (1192–1867).