Short identifications and questions will be taken from the following list plus the three Buddhism handouts (Basic Buddhist Doctrines/Zen, Mahayana Buddhism, Sects of Buddhism in Japan).
shukyo ("religion")
action vs. belief
Kojiki and Nihongi
Izanagi and Izanami
Amaterasu
Susa-no-o
Sugawara Michizane (Kitano Tenjin)
genze riyaku
Inari
jobutsu
kami
matsuri
jinja (shrine)
miko (shrine maiden)
Shichigosan (7-5-3) Festival
hatsumode
kamidana
butsudan
honne/tatemae
mutual obligation
Ise shrine
Izumo shrine
purity and pollution
sacred space
torii
"Shinto" (the name)
harai (purification)
shinsen (offering)
norito (prayer)
Obon Festival
State (Shrine) Shinto
Sect Shinto
Association of Shinto Shrines
Imperial Rescript on Education
akitsu kami (manifest, living kami)
Yasukuni Shrine
Douglas MacArthur
Pokkuri-temple
Nara (place and period)
Heian-kyo
Heian period
Kamakura (place and period)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Edo (place and period)
Meiji period
Showa period
Heisei period
Hirohito
Emperor
shogun
daimyo
samurai
bushido (warrior's way)
ronin
Oishi
Lord Asano
Sengaku-ji
chu (loyalty)
shu (reciprocity)
Confucius
Analects
"humanity"
"ritual propriety"
"superior person"
Siddhartha Gautama
Sakyamuni (Shaka-butsu)
Three Jewels/Treasures
danka system
Heart Sutra
Shobogenzo
"Genjo koan"
"The Scripture of Mountains and Waters"
Amida's vows
shugyo (ascetic practice)
Kobo Daishi
dogyo ninin (two people, same practice)
Shugendo
yamabushi
1000-day mountain-circumambulating practice
fuda, o-mamori, and ema
Tenrikyo
Soka Gakkai
Shin'nyoen
Agonshu
Mahikari
Jizo
mizuko-kuyo
Hasedera Kannon
mono-no-aware