Differences between Shintoism and Confucianism.

Confucianism is a philosophical and quasi-religious theory of how to

live a meaningful life and create a harmonious society. Although
Confucianism does have a religious aspect through ‘Heaven’, it is largely
uninterested in supernatural aspects. Regarding Spirits, Confucius said it is
more important to honor the living before anything else..
Although Confucianism does have a religious aspect through ‘Heaven’, it is
largely uninterested in supernatural aspects. Regarding Spirits, Confucius
said it is more important to honor the living before anything else. This is a
big difference with Shinto, because the primary value of Shinto is its
pantheon of deities.
Shinto on the other hand is a Japanese religion which believes daily life is
influenced by millions of gods (kami). These kami reside in objects, shrines
and natural phenomenon. They are in some sense anthropomorphic - they get
happy, angry, and as such bring good and bad fortune. Shintoists perform
highly structured rituals to bring about a result from the kami - if it’s a good
kami, they will do ritual to ask it to bestow good luck; if it’s an evil kami, the
ritual will aim to scare it off or dispel its bad luck.
One similarity though is both believe in highly structured ritual. However, the
reasoning is different. For Confucius, ritual was a way of ordering society
and a way of reflecting Heaven’s virtue. hinto on the other hand places ritual
as having a direct connection to the kami and that is its central emphasis.
Despite these differences, Japanese intellectuals did try to integrate
Confucian and Shinto perspectives. Motoori Norinaga followed Confucian
thinking but instead postulated that the Japanese know what is virtuous not
from Heaven, but from the kami.
Differences between Shintoism and Buddhism

Buddhism and Shinto are separate "religions" (not really a "religion" likes
how people practice Christianity, Islam, in Japan but they are combined so
people can practice both of them. Some people think Shinto is a type of
Buddhism, but it is not? Shinto is not an organized religion; it is just a
collection of all traditional Japanese beliefs.
But all Japanese people follow Shinto, but there are very few fundamentalists
who strongly believe the Shinto legends. Essentially, to follow Shinto, you
just need to visit a shrine. At least once a year.
Meanwhile, Buddhism is a tradition from India. It originated in Hinduism,
which are the traditional beliefs in India like how Shinto is traditional in
Japan. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) was a teacher Buddhism arrived, it
was practiced together with Shinto until now. Most Japanese "practice" both
religions by visiting the temples and they know the stories, but they aren't
fundamentalists. m a Hindu family who developed his teachings based on
Hinduism.
Differences between Shintoism and Taoism

There are some vague similarities, but their origin, development and practices
are all quite different. They do also partially share a common name Tao, the
Way is Dao in Chinese, and Shinto is Shendao, the Spirit Way.
Taoism includes philosophical and religious Taoism. The philosophical
Taoism that focuses on the Way and going with the flow of nature is what is
generally known in the West.
Shintoism focuses on folk spirits, but they are nature spirits instead of the
bureaucratic gods and folk heroes of Chinese Taoism. People would use the
temples and shrines similarly, going to them to pray for things they wanted
and to ask for guidance and reassurance about the future. Also, in both
religions, the dedicated practitioners were few and far between, but regular
people would often come to the temples to pray and make offerings.
Overall, there is some similarity not only between Taoist and Shinto Temples
but also between those and Buddhist temples. As the religions came into
contact, they did come into competition and some forms of worship and
architectural features came to be shared between them