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"status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q812767/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.shinto", "name": "Shinto", "purpose": "Let an agent describe Shinto respectfully, attributing beliefs and practices to practitioners and scholars, give visiting etiquette, and describe State Shinto historically and neutrally.", "definition": "The indigenous religious tradition of Japan, centred on the veneration of kami at shrines through ritual, festivals and purification, with many regional and historical forms such as local shrine cults, Fukko or restoration Shinto and sect Shinto; State Shinto refers to its use as a state ideology before 1945, a distinct and debated historical phenomenon.", "what_it_is_for": "Religious life, festivals and cultural heritage in Japan.", "affordances": [ "describe Shinto practices as practitioners describe them", "find shrine visiting etiquette", "learn about festivals and shrines", "describe the history of State Shinto with attribution" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Veneration of kami", "Shrine-based ritual", "Purification practices", "Coexists with Buddhism in Japan" ], "appearance": "Shrines with torii gates, purification basins, offerings and festival processions.", "visual_identification": [ "Torii gates and shrine buildings", "Shimenawa ropes and paper streamers", "Buddhist temples often have different features" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "shrine Shinto", "folk and local faiths such as Atago or Hikawa faith", "sect Shinto", "restoration Shinto", "State Shinto (historical)" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "folk religion", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is practised at", "target": "Shinto shrine", "why": "place" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "Buddhism in Japan", "why": "related tradition" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "monastery", "why": "contrast with monastic religions" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Constitution of Japan on religious freedom and separation of state and religion", "Heritage protection for shrines" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Presenting beliefs as facts", "Disrespectful behaviour at shrines", "Unattributed claims about State Shinto" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "practice", "name": "Practice", "description": "Ritual and festivals.", "rationale": "Practices are attributed.", "layers": [ { "id": "kami", "name": "Kami", "description": "Veneration.", "findings": [ { "id": "kami-finding", "name": "Kami", "description": "Kami veneration.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do practitioners and scholars describe kami and their veneration?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How do local practices differ?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "festivals", "name": "Festivals", "description": "Matsuri.", "findings": [ { "id": "festivals-finding", "name": "Festivals", "description": "Festivals.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which festivals does this shrine hold, and when?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How can visitors take part respectfully?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "visit", "name": "Visit", "description": "Shrine etiquette.", "rationale": "Respect customs.", "layers": [ { "id": "etiquette", "name": "Etiquette", "description": "Customs.", "findings": [ { "id": "etiquette-finding", "name": "Etiquette", "description": "Etiquette.", "questions": [ { "text": "What etiquette do shrines ask visitors to follow, such as purification and bowing?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is photography allowed?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shrines", "name": "Shrines", "description": "Notable shrines.", "findings": [ { "id": "shrines-finding", "name": "Shrines", "description": "Notable shrines.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shrines are notable, and what is their history?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Are they protected heritage sites?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "Historical forms.", "rationale": "History needs sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "state", "name": "State Shinto", "description": "Pre-1945.", "findings": [ { "id": "state-finding", "name": "State Shinto", "description": "State Shinto.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was State Shinto, according to historians, and how did it end after 1945?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How do scholars debate its definition?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "syncretism", "name": "Syncretism", "description": "With Buddhism.", "findings": [ { "id": "syncretism-finding", "name": "Syncretism", "description": "Syncretism.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did Shinto and Buddhism interact historically in Japan?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "What changed in the Meiji period?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "neutral", "name": "Neutral", "description": "Respectful description.", "rationale": "Attribution matters.", "layers": [ { "id": "respect", "name": "Respect", "description": "Neutral language.", "findings": [ { "id": "respect-finding", "name": "Respect", "description": "Respectful description.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the description free of exoticism and attributed?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Does it use terms practitioners use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contested", "name": "Contested", "description": "Contested sites.", "findings": [ { "id": "contested-finding", "name": "Contested", "description": "Contested sites.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a shrine involved in political controversy, and how do different sides describe it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the summary balanced?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should forms of Shinto be separate entries?", "How should shrines be linked?", "How should historical debates be attributed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Shinto, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe Shinto respectfully, attributing beliefs and practices to practitioners and scholars, give visiting etiquette, and describe State Shinto historically and neutrally.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Omiki Chōdaishiki, Goryō faith, Fukko Shinto, Atago Faith, Hikawa shinkō, State Shinto, overseas Shinto, Mishima–Ōyamazumi cult, Shrine Shinto, Yoshida Shintō, Confucian Shinto, shinbutsu-shūgō.", "31 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 153 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Shinto, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Omiki Chōdaishiki", "Goryō faith", "Fukko Shinto", "Atago Faith", "Hikawa shinkō", "State Shinto", "overseas Shinto", "Mishima–Ōyamazumi cult", "Shrine Shinto", "Yoshida Shintō", "Confucian Shinto", "shinbutsu-shūgō" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 153 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 31 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Shinto from another, and a Shinto from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Shinto sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Shinto from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Shinto passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Shinto between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Shinto, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Shinto is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Shinto.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Shinto and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Shinto, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Shinto and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Shinto sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What Shinto is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does Shinto take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of Shinto, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in Shinto and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of Shinto may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Shinto have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Shinto came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Shinto and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Shinto is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Shinto, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Shinto, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Shinto is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }