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Shintō Taikyō |
One of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto ( Shintō jūsanpa ). Government administrative circumstances played a great role in the coming into existence of this religious organization. Before 1940, it went under the name Shintō Honkyoku (its formal name was simply "Shintō&qu... |
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Shintō Taiseikyō |
One of the thirteen sects of prewar Shintō and a typical representative of what is known as sectarian Shintō ( kyōha Shintō ). Founded by Hirayama Seisai (1815-1890). Born in Miharu in Mutsu Province (present-day Fukushima Prefecture), Hirayama was the son of a kendō (fencing) teac... |
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Shishino Nakaba |
(1844-84) Founder of Fusōkyō, one of the thirteen Meiji-era groups of so-called "sectarian Shinto" (Kyōha Shintō). Born on the ninth day of the ninth month (lunar) of 1844 in the town of Kumanojō (located in the Satsuma domain's Satsuma District, present-day city of Sen... |
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Shizensha |
A religious movement from the lineage of Hito no Michi Kyōdan (see PL Kyōdan) and founded by Hashimoto Satomi (1899-1984). Born in Kagoshima (Kyushu), Hashimoto became a disciple of Miki Tokuharu in 1924. Miki, in turn, had been a disciple of Kanada Tokumitsu. Miki established the J... |
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Shugendō |
Shugendō is a religion that espouses a variety of salvific activities based on the attainment by its practitioners, called shugen , of supranormal, magico-religious power through ascetic training in the mountains. It gradually took form between the twelfth and fourteenth centu... |
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Shōroku Shintō Yamatoyama |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Tazawa Seishirō (1884-1966), and based on his personal experience of dedicating a shrine to a "mountain kami" ( yama no kami ) in 1919, witnessing extraordinary astronomical phenomena, and hearing divine voices. During the rel... |
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Shūkyō Hōjin Shikō Gakuen |
A new religious movement strongly influenced by Shinto. Founded by Kawakami Seizan (1908-51), who was born in Tokunoshima in the Ōshima district of Kagoshima Prefecture. Kawakami became a police chief in Hyogo Prefecture, but resigned due to ill-health. During World War II, Kawa... |
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Shūyōdan Hōseikai |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Idei Seitarō (1899-1983). Idei was born the third son of a poor farmer in Ibaraki Prefecture. After going to Tokyo in 1915, he became acquainted with Uesaka Inosuke, a Tenrikyō preacher and co-worker at the post office where he was employed, a... |
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Sonoda Moriyoshi |
(1785-184) Scholar of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in the late Edo period, born to the Arakida lineage. Son of Sonoda Moritsura (1757-1812), Suppliant Priest ( negi ) at Ise's Inner Shrine (Naikū), Sonoda Moriyoshi was born in 1785 as the younger twin of Moritsune. His childho... |
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Soshindō |
A Shinto-derived new religious movement that arose focused on Matsushita Matsuzō (1873-1947), a spirit medium ( reinōsha ) active from the Taisho era (1912-26) to the World War II period. Subject to chronic illness, Matsushita had possessed deep faith from a young age and had activ... |
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Soshindō Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion established by Yoshioka Tajūrō (1905-87), who had worked earlier as a teacher in Izumo Taishakyō. In the early Showa era (ca. late 1920s-) Yoshioka visited and came under the religious tutelage of the Shinto spiritualist Matsushita Matsuzō, known as ... |
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Subikari Kōha Sekai Shindan |
A new religion from the lineage of Ōmoto, Sekai Kyūseikyō and Mahikari. Founded by the spiritualist manga artist Kuroda Minoru (1928- ), under influence from Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan. Kuroda made his living as an artist of manga (graphic novels) while continuing his studies of ... |
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Sugiura Jūgō |
(1855-1924) Educator and philosopher of the Meiji and Taisho eras. Born in 1855 as the second son of Confucianist Sugiura Jūbun in the Zeze Domain of Ōmi Province (in present-day Shiga Prefecture). His styled was Tendai Dōshi. As a youth, he received training in Chinese classics at t... |
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Suika Shintō |
The form of Shinto advocated by Yamazaki Ansai, a Confucian-Shintoist (see Juka Shintō ) of the early Edo period. Suika Shintō was a form of Confucianist Shintō that attempted to compiled all Shinto theories since medieval times, and until the appearance of National Learning ( koku... |
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Sukui no Hikari Kyōdan |
A new religion deriving from Sekai Kyūseikyō, and one of several groups that in quick succession became independent in opposition to that religion's policy of centralization ( ichigenka ) implemented in the mid-1960s. Its direct parent body was Shinsei Kyōkai, which had been one o... |
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Sumerakyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion considered in the Shirakawa Shintō lineage. It began when Onikura Taruhiko, who had received direct transmission from the Shirakawa family of Shinto ritualists (called the Shirakawa Hakuō), experienced possession ( kamigakari ) by a deity around 1... |
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Suzuka Tsuratane |
(1795-187) Shinto practitioner and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the late Edo period. Born in 1795 to a priestly family ( shake ) of the Kyoto shrine Yoshida Jinja. The Suzuka were hereditary family retainers to the Yoshida clan. Suzuka held the posts of Provisional Jun... |
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Suzuki Shigetane |
(1812-63) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) in the lage Edo era. His common names included Katsuzaemon, and his styles included Kashinoya and Izukashi. Shigetani was his formal name. He was born in 1812 in the village of Nii, Tsuna District, Awaji Province (present-day Hyōg... |
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Sūkyō Mahikari |
A new religion derived from the lineages of Ōmoto and Sekai Kyūseikyō, and which became independent from the Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan. When the founder of Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan, Okada Kōtama (1901-74) (known in the movement as sukuinushi , or lit., "salvation mast... |
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Tachibana Mitsuyoshi |
(1635-173) Shintoist of the early Edo period. His formal name was Mitsuyoshi, written光義 or 美津与志, and he used the epistolary name Ishōan and others. He was given the Shinto religious name ( reishagō ) Jureishin by the Yoshida house. Tachibana was born in 1635, in Hirado of Hizen Provin... |
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