This understanding also applies to Japan, and deities of higher ranks are believed to dwell in big things or things that live long in Shintoism and particularly Ancient Shintoism that is also called Jomon Shintoism for it is believed to have existed before the beginning of the Jomon period (ancient form of Shintoism that existed before the 6th century before it was influenced by the foreign customs and forms folk beliefs in today's Japan).
これは、日本において同様であり、神道、特に縄文時代以前からある縄文神道といわれる古神道（6世紀以前の外来の習俗に影響される前の神道で、現在の日本の民間信仰でもある）においては、大きいものや長くあるものや古いものに、より位の高い神が宿ると考えた。