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...Myths Fall. Leader of the expedition, sponsored by the Shinto Cultural Society, is a small, slim bachelor named Masajiro Takikawa. a professor who has spent most of his 65 years studying Oriental and Japanese history...
Hold to Spiritual Truths. With this chilling announcement. Takikawa and his fellows set to work. Archaeologists surveyed pit dwellings and caves. Shinto researchers examined shrines, pored over ancient manuscripts. Anthropologists cross-examined villagers about festival and harvest customs. Sociologists peered at pots and looms...
...found not a shred of evidence to support the legend. After a brief look at a stone tablet engraved with what the people called "god writing." the archaeologists dismissed it as being "only about three centuries old-probably the work of some local mountain hermit." But the leaders of Shinto, the indigenous Japanese religion with roots closely bound to the legend, seemed unconcerned about what the scientists would find. "Whatever historical facts the scientists find cannot destroy the spiritual truths of our religion." said one. "any more than scientific analysis of miracles destroys the truths of Christianity...
Many views featured richly colored Shinto shrines, and their gates--the so-called torii, one of the simplest yet most highly artistic structural designs ever conceived...
Uchimura prayed to his Shinto gods to protect him from becoming a Christian, but to no avail. He was converted, and with six friends he formed a congregation. They met in a dormitory room, preached from a flour barrel, and rotated the office of preacher among them...