“Domain Shinto” (hanryō shintō) is a term coined by a research team of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as an umbrella concept for various Shinto-related religious innovations and reforms that occurred at the regional level in Tokugawa Japan from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. It seeks to combine the already well studied intellectual trend of shinju itchi (blending of Shinto and Confucianism) and the ensuing critique of Buddhism with attempts to restructure both Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in a radical way in certain local domains. Rather than looking at these phenomena in isolation, the term “Domain Shinto” is designed to focus on their common roots and structural parallels. In the Special Thematic Section of Japan Review entitled “Domain Shinto in Tokugawa Japan,” four experts from Austria and Japan discuss the concept in both a general manner and in the form of specific case studies.