No wonder that in Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511) a counter-movement arose to reverse the order and assert kami as superior to Buddhas by dint of being Japanese. Only by becoming Buddhist could they advance, one of the most famous cases being Hachiman bosatsu (a kami-cum-Bodhisattva). The kami were already part of the spiritual landscape, so they had to be fitted in somehow. In a reversal of what one might expect, the native kami were ranked below the imported deities in shinbutsu-shugyo syncretism.
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