The Beginning of Shintoism
How did shintoism begin?
No one  knows when shintoism ever began. It was named shintoism around the 5th century C.E. It was probably the religon of Japan many years before that. It was the offical religon of Japan from the late 1800's until the end of WWII. The term shinto means, "Way of the gods." Because of the fact that no one knows when or how it began, it has no real founder.
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