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1. Shinto

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   Seasonal Cycles and Festival Practice
   Shinto organizes temporal experience around seasonal transitions. Major festivals (matsuri) marking agricultural cycles, celestial events, and mythological commemorations structure the religious calendar. The New Year celebration (Shogatsu) represents the year's most significant observance, involving shrine visits, purification rites, and the consumption of specially prepared foods believed to transmit ancestral blessing through sympathetic resonance.[^12]
   Ritual Practice and Contemporary Observance