Shinto. It is the natural religion of Japan and was once its national religion. It includes the worship of kami or spirits. Some kami are local, and the spirit is of a particular place – like Amaterasu, the Sun goddess, or Mount Fuji. This religion has no established dogma or unique book, no holiest place, no person or kami viewed as the most sacred. People enter shrines by passing through a distinguishing gate (torii). The shrine may hold offerings of food and sake located before a symbol of the kami. the Shinto ideal of harmony with nature inspires such typically Japanese arts as flower-arranging (ikebana), traditional architecture, and garden design.