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Amaterasu
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This modernization initiative entailed:
Institutional separation: Enforced administrative divorce of Buddhist and Shinto institutions, reversing centuries of shinbutsu-shugo (kami-buddha syncretism)
Mandatory shrine veneration: State-mandated Amaterasu worship through the Ise Grand Shrine, the primary site of her veneration
Educational indoctrination: Incorporation of Amaterasu mythology into mandatory school curricula as literal historical fact, with textbooks allocating approximately 40% of content to her biograph…