A sect of Shinto.

There are three schools of Shinto: Shinto in shrine, Shinto in sect and Shinto in folk. Shinto has 13 sects, and each sect has its own founder. There is no strict organization of folk Shinto, but farmers themselves sacrifice to farming and road gods. After the Meiji Restoration, the government supported Shinto in the shrine, announced the integration of politics and religion, and designated Shinto as the state religion, that is, the national Shinto, which was funded by the government. In ancient times, the priests who sacrificed to Shinto, the God Lord (the priest of Shinto) and the lower clergy were generally hereditary. The Meiji government did not adopt the traditional system and abolished hereditary posts. A bureau is set up in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to manage the national shrine, and the clergy are employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Most of the little people in ancient society were integrated into the big society by the government. 1945 after Japan surrendered in the second world war, at the request of the allied forces, the Japanese government announced the separation of church and state, and Emperor Hirohito issued an imperial edict to declare whether he was a man or not, abolishing the national Shinto. The government could not subsidize the shrine, but the Shinto in the shrine has become the mainstream of Japanese Shinto belief.