1868 AD
Shinbutsu separation and Meiji
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Japanese Buddhist traditions · State
Policies separating kami and buddhas reorder Japanese Buddhist institutions; shared practices do not automatically disappear.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1868
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- Nanzan Institute — The Separation of Gods and Buddhas at Ōmiwa Shrine (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 1995
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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