ABSTRACT
Sonaemono is a term we can understand as designating all the presents given daily, as well as on special occasions, to native deities, kami, and to the Buddhist entities called hotoke. All over Japan, kami and hotoke are the two kinds of religious entities, respectively venerated in Shintō shrines (miya, jinja, jingū) and in Buddhist temples (tera). Longstanding cult practices generally maintain a basic distinction between kami and hotoke, despite the existence of some forms of syncretism, well known within Japanese religious phenomena.
