Hitherto Buddhism and shintoism have been the two forces that have preserved the religious faith of the people and kept their patriotism at white heat.
"The Critic in the Orient"
George Hamlin Fitch
In these houses offerings to the spirits of departed family ancestors are placed at intervals, this practice being very similar to the more ancient form of shintoism.
"The Khasis"
P. R. T. Gurdon
Confucianism and shintoism, which are ethical and ceremonial rather than doctrinal, have been in the past to some extent a law to the governments of China and Japan, or more accurately an aspect of those governments.
"Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch"
Charles Eliot