Shinbutsu Bunri in The Early Modern Age
The shinbutsu bunri, and the haibutsu kishaku it tended to cause, in the early modern age were a phenomenon encountered mostly in domains where anti-Buddhist Confucianism was strong, as the Okayama, Mito, and Yodo Domains. For example, in the 1660s Tokugawa Mitsukuni in Mito forcibly closed a thousand temples and ordered the building of one shrine per village.
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