Around 1700 AD Shinto started to combine with other religions such as Confucianism and Buddhism which then formed a religion called Ryobu Shinto.
Around 1700 AD Japanese scripts were being studied by scholars, Airata was one of the Shinto scholars from his knowledge and studies came to a conclusion that "Japan is the country of gods, and her inhabitants are the descendants of gods".
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