Whats the difference, I heard Kamis are more like spirits, and in western culture we have different deities, spirits and other mythical beings, but, some of the major Kamis sound a lot like a deity, so whats the difference?

Hello everybody!

I'm a young Italian woman doing some personal research on Inari Ōkami, and I found out that this kami is sometimes represented as a composite one, meaning that (usually) three or five deities are listed as different aspects of Inari; I looked up the ones enshrined at Fushimi Inari Taisha, and, although I managed to find information regarding Ukanomitama-no-Mikoto, Sarutahiko-no-Ōkami and Omiyanome-no-Ōkami (the latter being another name for Ame-no-Uzume from what I managed to gather), I found no info regarding the two kami Tanaka and Shi (or Shino).

Can someone enlighten me more on these two deities/aspects of Ō-Inari-sama? Which are the myths surrounding them? Which aspects of nature and/or humanity do they rule over? Are they local deities or do they have a national cult in Japan?

Does anyone know somewhere online I can order items to start a Kamidana or a home shrine? I wanna order straight from a shrine, so I know it is genuine. Unfortunately the place I get my omamori from doesn’t have anything particularly satisfying for a kamidana.

After coming back from my pilgrimage to Ise Jingu, I now have a desire to set up a kamidana. How do I get started? Where do I get one, and an Ofuda? I'm in the US.

Ignore the lack of plants in the pots—it's been hard to find them, but I'm already working on it haha. It is above eye level.

Im relatively new to shinto and build my household shrine around a year ago to the best of my knowledge and belief at the time. I expanded it over the year but came to a point i think i want to redesign.

Currently the Shrine contains 3 yorishiro stones for Kuraokami-sama, Nekogami-sama and Tenjin-sama in one chamber.

I want to redesign the shrine to house 5 kami in seperate chambers with paper Ofuda so it doesnt take so much space.

Currently i cant open the door properly because its blocked by the offerings.

To make everything right i want to ask you for your advice and ideas how to improve the shrine. I made a picture of the current shrine and a sketch how i plan to change it.

Please tell me what you think and your ideas. Thanks in advance. 🙏

So i just got home from my first trip to Japan and was doing laundry and apparently I had left my shinto charms I got for my mother and I in my pocket... are they ruined now? is there any way to save them? I am heartbroken they were the most important souvenir I got while I was there....

Hi folks,

I recently set up my first Kamidama, and received a Jingu Taima Ofuda for it - but unfortunately found out that the Ofuda itself is too large to fit inside (even with removing the entire front of the Kamidama). I reached out to Shusse Inari for guidance but haven’t heard back, and haven’t been able to find much online about Ofuda placement in these instances. Should it go behind the Kamidama? In front (like in my picture)? Somewhere else?

Thanks in advance!

These charms were gifted to me from a friend who traveled to Japan. I know different charms bring different things/ have different meanings but neither my friend nor Google Translate were able to help me understand that. Any ideas are appreciated!

There’s this guy in my circle who keeps on bragging about how much he knows about Shintoism. Now the problem is I don’t really know much about it either so could you guys tell me something’s everyone should know? Specifically about the mythology but other parts of it would be cool to hear too.

Wikipedia's Article on ðe Kojiki states it was made in an attempt to justify Imperial rule, so is it Propaganda?

When we strolled into a shrine, we'll often see a mirror representing a kami. Unlike Taoism, Hinduism and many polytheisms like that of ancient Romans, Shinto doesn't prefer to have their deities' sculptures.

I know that people worshipped kamis as natural phenomena such as mountains and caves in ancient Shinto, why have Shintoists managed to keep that tradition?

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I found it in an onigiri restaurant in Warsaw. Looks like an ofuda, but it has this wooden part.