Talk:Glossary/@comment-26200572-20150423135237/@comment-31.33.217.53-20150604210515

Long story short, they are specialised priests / folklorists tasked with the identification of the gods. It seems they don't do only Shintô, but also Shinbutsu-Shugô, since a lot of Shintô gods were syncretized with buddhists deities and new ones were born too like Myôken Bosatsu (the Polestar deity-bodhisattva, heavily worshipped by the Taira clan, most notably the Sôma clan and Taira-no-Masakado).