ABSTRACT
The story of Prince Fire Shine and Prince Fire Fade is one into which wise people read a great many things, such as the conflict between the hill tribes and the coast tribes, the hunting and the fishing population. At the World's Parliament of Religious at Chicago, in 1893, the Right Rev. R. Shibata explained the meaning of the name Shinto as used to signify the ancient religion of Japan. An interesting example of the way in which the Shinto nature deities were taken over into the Buddhist pantheon is quoted by Chamberlain. "The word Shinto or Kami-no-michi comes from the two words Shin or Kami meaning deity, and to or michi, a way; and it designates the Way transmitted to from our Divine Ancestors, in which every Japanese is bound to walk. Purity, actual and ceremonial, is the one law of Shinto; and a large share of the rites is directed to purification.
