For roughly a thousand years, from the Nara period to 1868, Japanese religion was a single combined system. The dominant theory, honji suijaku, held that the kami were local traces of buddhas and bodhisattvas — Amaterasu was identified with the cosmic buddha Dainichi, Hachiman was formally titled a bodhisattva. Temples were built inside shrine precincts and shrines inside temple grounds, Buddhist priests performed shrine rites, and sutras were chanted to kami. The Meiji government forcibly separated them by decree in 1868, in the shinbutsu bunri, and the resulting haibutsu kishaku movement destroyed an enormous quantity of Buddhist statuary, buildings and manuscripts, with tens of thousands of temples closed. That separation is the reason Shinto looks like a distinct religion today, and it is about a hundred and fifty years old. Ordinary Japanese practice never fully accepted the divorce: the standard pattern is a shrine wedding, a Buddhist funeral, a kamidana and a butsudan in the same house.