How to Use Shinto in a Sentence

Shinto

noun
  • At 100, she was said to be still ascending the stone steps of her local Shinto shrine without a cane.
    — Martin Fackler, New York Times, 2025-01-04
  • Later that season, it was revealed that Stanford had become a Shinto monk.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 2024-02-19
  • Orochi’s conduct earned him the disdain of even the Shinto trickster god, Susanoo, who formed a plan of revenge.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-07-03
  • The beverage was initially brewed in Shinto shrines, and has held a sacred place in the country’s culture.
    — Tokyo Halfie, Condé Nast Traveler, 2023-10-09
  • Or incorporate rope and hemp, which Yoshida says can commonly be found in Shinto shrines.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 2025-01-16
  • Her method evoked the Shinto principle that objects can be inhabited by a kami, a spirit.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2024-12-16
  • Torii gates are iconic structures that mark the boundary between the everyday and the sacred at Shinto shrines across Japan.
    — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 2024-11-14
  • How much of that is, ‘This is formal, capital-S Shinto,’ and how much of it is just Shinto-y?
    — oregonlive, 2023-04-30
  • As the sun rose, the vermilion paint that decorates most Shinto shrines to ward off evil and misfortune began to shine dazzlingly.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The city is famous for its Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and large population of deer that roams free in the city’s parks and historic sites.
    — Natalie B. Compton and Julia Mio Inuma, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-07-13
  • Torii gates, structures found at the entrance of Shinto shrines across Japan, symbolize the transition from the mundane to the sacred.
    — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 2024-11-14
  • From the world’s biggest and busiest fish market, to a sushi bar tucked away under the railroad tracks, to octopus on a grill outside a Shinto shrine, food is everywhere.
    — National Geographic, 2023-01-12
  • The writers crafted an arc in which his character, Stanford Blatch, moved to Japan and became a Shinto monk.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2024-02-26
  • She was inspired by the Japanese Shinto religion, which teaches that objects have spirits and must be respected as such.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 2025-04-08
  • Take Japan, where the erosion of Shinto and Buddhist death rituals has coincided with an epidemic of overwork and suicide.
    — Devi Brown, Time, 2025-04-24
  • The nearby Meiji Jingu Shinto shrine was another urban oasis surrounded by 173 acres of woods right in the middle of the city.
    — Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2024-03-02
  • In Shinto belief, spirits—kami—are not only connected to the shrines constructed in their honor, but also linked to objects, landscapes, and other earthly phenomena.
    — Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 2025-02-05
  • Each gate is donated by individuals and businesses, a tradition that has lasted for centuries to honor Inari, the Shinto god of rice and prosperity, among other things.
    — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 2024-09-09
  • Sumo is regarded as Japan’s national sport, or most sacred sport, and many of the ritual elements are connected to Shinto, Japan’s indigenous religion.
    — Stephen Wade, Denver Post, 2025-05-28
  • Rooted in Confucian ethics, Zen Buddhism and Shinto beliefs, this code emphasizes loyalty, self-sacrifice and duty to protect others.
    — Ronald S. Green, The Conversation, 2025-03-24
  • Or visit another popular destination, the Yasaka-jinja Shinto shrine, with its colorful vermillion gate and outdoor sanctuary where worshippers pull on dangling cords to ring large bells.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 2023-08-07
  • Rooted in the Buddhist and Shinto belief that water is a means of purifying oneself, onsen bathing dates back to the sixth century and remains a regular self-care practice for Japanese people today.
    — Anna Haines, Vogue, 2025-04-09
  • As for spirituality and fitness, Mangione called for the revival of traditional Japanese activities such as onsen (hot springs), the Shinto religion and karate.
    — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 2024-12-10
  • Her gospel draws on the individual impulse to tinker, prevalent in early America and throughout its history, and joins it with an appreciation for animate objects developed in her five years as a miko, or shrine maiden, at a Shinto temple.
    — Coco Krumme, WIRED, 2023-09-13
  • During the 19th century, the newly imperialistic government promoted Shinto, the country’s Indigenous animist tradition, over Buddhism.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 2023-04-25
  • Evoking divinity and a potential abode for the kami, or sacred spirits, the colossal site-specific work spans 797 square feet across two walls in the foyer leading to The Shinto Shrine, enshrining the sun goddess, Amaterasu Oomikami, the Japanese sun goddess and a central deity in Shinto mythology.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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