Shintoism and Buddism in 6th century

　　　　Notwithstanding the transmission of the cosmopolitan religion, Kinmei Tennou only recommended Soga-no-Iname to worship the image of the Buddha privately, while he himself was not converted to the Buddhism. Kinmei Tennou would well recognize that what the Tennou had to preserve was his religious position as a highest officiator of Japanese vernacular religion, Shintoism. So he did not dare to relinquish his faith with some influential clans, Mononobe family and Nakatomi family, both of whom also had followed Shintoism as of old.

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