Japanese History: Shinto Religion

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For example, as Kuroda has shown in the case of the word Shinto, words may stay the same while meanings change. This is contrasted by what seems to be the common sense way of looking at history, through an ahistorical viewpoint; that is, things are unchanging and permanent...
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Instead, Tanaka argues that there is a "variability of the past, made stable through history" (Tanaka, 24). It is easier for historians to look back at past events from their present stance and tell the story how they see it, as a "stable" set of chronological events...
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