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復古神道 (ふっこしんとう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Meanings 1
noun
Fukko Shinto ; Restoration Shinto
An 18th-century Shinto movement that sought to return to classical Japanese texts and purge Confucian and Buddhist influences. A proper noun referring to this specific historical school.
復ふっ 古こ 神しん 道とう の 思し 想そう は 、 幕ばく 末まつ の 尊そん 王のう 攘じょう 夷い 運うん 動どう に 影えい 響きょう を 与あた え た 。
The ideas of Restoration Shinto influenced the sonnō jōi movement at the end of the Edo period.
Kanji 復 restore, return to, revert 道 road-way, street, district Similar words 国こく 学がく Kokugaku is the broader nativist scholarly movement that provided the intellectual foundation for Fukko Shinto, which specifically applied those ideas to Shinto revival.
神しん 道とう Shinto is the general term for the indigenous religion of Japan, while Fukko Shinto is a specific historical reform movement within Shinto.
Etymology From 復古 (fukko, 'restoration, revival of antiquity') + 神道 (Shintō, 'Shinto'). The term directly describes the movement's aim to restore what it considered the original, pure form of Shinto.
