1. Womens Gender Roles In Japanese Religious Traditions
... Shinto tradition when she writes: "Shinto has been the aboriginal native tradition responsible for the Japanese tendency to locate divinity in a nature populated with 800,000 kami and to equate ethics with acting so as to honor one's family (Lardner 125)."" The Shinto tradition has a story of creation that states two kami (the Japanese equivalent to gods) descended from the heavens ... to stay at home with his children while his wife worked and today many men stay at home during the day. The Tokugawa period in Japan was completely Confucian in ethics and caused a struggle for women of t...
- Word Count: 3406
- Approx Pages: 14
- Has Bibliography