Shinbutsu kakuri
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The term shinbutsu kakuri in Japanese Buddhist terminogy refers to the tendency in medieval and early modern Japan to keep some kami separate from Buddhism. While some kami were integrated in Buddhism
Ise Shrine was one of the first to isolate its kami from Buddhism.
Jingū-ji
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Until the Meiji period, the jingū-ji were places of worship composed of a Buddhist temple and a Shinto shrine, both dedicated to a local kami. These complexes were born when a temple was erected next
Tsurugaoka Hachimangū-ji in an old drawing. In the foreground the shrine-temple's Buddhist structures (not extant), among them a pagoda, a belltower and a niōmon. The shrine (extant) is above.
Seiganto-ji is one of the very few existing jingū-ji.
A Buddhist pagoda (a Yakushi-dō (薬師堂) at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū-ji in Kamakura before the shinbutsu bunri