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カテゴリー1： 8. Schools, Groups, and Personalities
カテゴリー2： Modern Sectarian Groups
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Ten'onkyō | 天恩教
Text A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Hachiro Fukuji (1899-1962). On the occasion of the one-hundredth-day memorial following his eldest daughter's death in 1931, Hachiro experienced the ability to converse with her spirit, and thereafter received visitations from various deities. From that time he embarked on pilgrimages to shrines noted for their powerful enshrined kami (see saijin). Upon the advice of an oracle, Hachiro visited Matsushita Matsuzō (1873-1947) a Shinto spiritualist medium active in Kumamoto from the early 1920s to the 1940s, and began to engage in cooperative work with him, based on the fact that they venerated the same type of deity. After Matsushita died in 1947, Fukuji founded the group Ten'onkyō at his home in Kyoto. In 1948 the group was registered as a religious corporation under the Religious Corporations Ordinance (Shūkyō Hōjinrei), and in 1952 under the Religious Corporations Law (Shūkyō Hōjinhō). In 1955 Fukuji outlined his Five Principles for Peace (heiwa gogensoku), namely the renunciation of war, the abolition of nationalism, the opening of national boundaries, the renunciation of national powers, and the union of all religions. In addition he advocated the four great principles of loyalty, filial piety, veneration of the gods, and reverence for ancestors. The movement's activities focus on talks based on the teachings of Fukuji and, after his death, those of the second leader Hachiro Fukutarō, but, at the request of members, it also carries out the secret salvific rite blessing by the hands called otekazu. Headquarters: Kyoto Prefecture Nominal membership: approximately 1400 (M)
—Yumiyama Tatsuya
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