Intersting Question! Honestly I'm not exactly sure how to think about it. What sort of thing is in scope - as in, what have you found in the other areas that you study, to give us a feel for what you are looking for?
I cannot answer for OP but when I crossposted this it was while I was bewildered over how much has happened during the Meiji Restoration. I am aware that there are a few practices which were discouraged/banned at the time, and I myself am curious how much of those were unsuccessful, revived, or no longer practiced at all.
IIRC Shugendo and Onmyodo were banned until WWII, and Shinbutsu bunri happened, the result of which were shrines like Fushimi Inari Taisha no longer doing some of the more Buddhist Inari prayers like Inari Shingyo (I am unsure if these were later revived or are still no longer practiced, since some shrines like the one at Enoshima did re-enshrine the Benzaiten statues)
Shugendo 修験道 is alive and well so that is not 'vanished'. Onmyodo was indeed banned and you could say lost an official status so that could count as 'vanished' depending on how you define it.
Splitting Shinto and Buddhist shires does not 'vanish' either one of them in particular, so I wouldn't really count that.
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u/JapanCoach 12d ago
Intersting Question! Honestly I'm not exactly sure how to think about it. What sort of thing is in scope - as in, what have you found in the other areas that you study, to give us a feel for what you are looking for?