Word: shinto
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...plans for Quincy and the Leverett House extension were greeted. Quincy rises like an aircraft carrier in dry dock; and the Leverett towers will reflect a Miami-Beach-hotel flamboyance complemented by a library which combines the best architectural features of a Peter Pan Drive-In and a Shinto temple...
Japanese religions indicate the national characteristics of "intuitiveness, harmony with nature, and introversion," the professor explained. He described Shinto, one of the dominant religions of Japan, as a conservative and traditional cult in which "nature and man are close...
According to Kishimoto, Shintoists are decreasing because the Shinto state religion once became associated with Nationalism, and Christianity's God was "tragically mistaken" in translation for the Shinto deity...
...lose face, everybody solemnly accepted this version and formally approved the marriage. An hour later, Michiko and her parents were at the Imperial Palace to pay their respects to the Emperor and Empress, and Akihito, dressed now in ancient court costume, went off to the three Shinto shrines on the palace grounds to tell his ancestors about his betrothal. Michiko herself went on TV to tell the Japanese people what she liked about the prince. "A clean, sincere man," she said, "whom I know I can trust...
...Philip Wylie (384 pp.; Rinehart; $4.95), whips around the world with America's most emotional writer. When not gawping at the tourist sights ("I wept as I sat on that bench and looked at the Taj Mahal"), Author Wylie is dazzling the natives with his knowledge of Shinto, his deft handling of chopsticks, his keen analytic mind. Everywhere Wylie trails disasters-Hong Kong was harassed by bubonic plague, Calcutta by cholera, "just after we left"-confounding Communists with his arguments, straightening out the thinking of Asian leaders and U.S. officials. Wylie's heart is obviously in the right...