ABSTRACT
Hokke Shinto is a term that designates kami interpretations and kami practices elaborated towards the end of the medieval period by the Hokke school, the name by which the Nichiren tradition was known until the Meiji period. This form of honji suijaku doctrine has received little attention among scholars of Japanese religion, perhaps because it developed later than other associative systems such as Ryøbu Shinto or Sannø Shinto, and because it was produced by a school of the so-called “new Kamakura Buddhism,” which post-war analyses of Japanese religious history have deemed free of the ideology on which honji suijaku systems are based.
