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[Mythology] What are the relations between the chinese Celestial Bureaucracy and the japanese Kami ?
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The Celestial Bureaucracy of Heaven is organized and powerful, but bogged down by their own inertia. The unknowable Court of Heaven never interacts with earth- mortals, even those of the Middle Kingdom, must go through intermediaries such as the Twelve great spirits of the Zodiac, or even their own ancestors, the greatest of which being the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

Japanese Kami interact much more with the world, perhaps because there is no clear delineation between 'god' and 'spirit' (though that's not to say the Chinese definition is not similarly uncertain.)

As such, their relation could be considered similar to that of the relation between Ming or Qing China and the Sengoku Jidai Daimyo- powerful Kami might occasionally have some interaction with the Beaurocracy, but by and large the Bureaucracy consider the Kami beneath their notice, and the Kami prefer to stick to affairs on their own islands.