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Tenkai |
(1536?-1643) A Tendai Buddhist Monk of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods, known as the founder of Sannō Ichijitsu Shintō. Tenkai came from Takada, Aizu (in present-day Fukushima Prefecture); several theories concerning his date of birth exist. His epistolary name was fi... |
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Tenkōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Fujita Shinshō (?- 1966). Fujita was born into a farming family in Uma district in Ehime Prefecture, and at the age of nineteen received a revelation from a deity he called Tenchikane no kami ("heaven-earth gold deity," simultane... |
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Tenrikyō |
Together with being one of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto, Tenrikyō was Japan's largest new religion from Meiji era until Japan's defeat in World War II (1945). In the tenth lunar month of 1863 Nakayama Miki (1798-1887) had a sudden experience of spirit possession ( kam... |
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Tensei Shinbikai |
A Shinto-derived new religion strongly influenced by Sekai Kyūseikyō. Its founder Iwanaga Kayoko (1934-) became a member of Sekai Kyūseikyō in 1958. Her husband Hidetaka also joined, and together they alternated leadership of the movement's Ujina branch center in Hiroshima. Du... |
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Tensha Tsuchimikado Shintō Honchō |
A religious movement drawing its inspiration from Tsuchimikado Shintō (Tensha Shintō) which was established in the early modern period by the Tsuchimikado family (descendants of the Heian period Yin-Yang ritualist Abe no Seimei). Dissolved in 1870, Tsuchimikado Shintō was rev... |
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Tenshin Seikyō |
A new religious movement founded by Shimada Seiichi (1896-1985). Seiichi was born the second son of a farming family in Kazo City in Saitama Prefecture. It is said that Shimada's birth had been prophesied a year before by a kami that had periodically possessed his elder brother since ... |
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Tenshindō Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion with strong eclectic tendencies, founded by Tamura Reishō (1890-1968). While working in the office of the Governor-General of Korea, Reishō studied the Daoistic magical arts transmitted in Korea since ancient times. It is said that after returning ... |
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Tenshinkyō Shin'yūden Kyōkai |
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Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō |
A Shinto-based new religion founded by Kitamura Sayo (1900-1967). Kitamura was born into a farming family in Kumage district in Yamaguchi Prefecture, but married into the Kitamura household, where she experienced a very strict mother-in-law. After one of family's outbuildings ... |
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Tenshōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Senba Hideo (1925-) and his wife Senba Kimiko, both of whom were born in Hokkaido. Senba Hideo's family were devotees of Tenrikyō, but when Hideo became ill in March 1953, the couple went to the Terahama branch of Ontakekyō in Hokkaido and beca... |
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Tenshūkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Unagami Haruho (1896-1965). Its origins lie in Unagami's dissatisfaction with Buddhism, whereupon he took up the study of Shinto and established the group Kōtokukai in the Denmachō area of Yotsuya district, Tokyo. Initially Unagami... |
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Tokoyo Nagatane |
(1832-86) An early Meiji-era scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the Hirata school. Born in 1832, Tokoyo lived in Mibu, Tsuga District, Shimotsuke Province (present-day Mibu-chō, Tochigi Prefecture). He name was first Tokozumi Keikichi, but he later changed it to Tokoyo ... |
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Tokugawa Mitsukuni |
(1628-17) Second-generation domainal lord of Mito Domain in the early Edo period. His childhood name was Chōmaru, then Chiyomatsu, and his styles were Tokuaki, Kanshi, and Shiryū. He used Nisshinsai and other studio names, and his posthumous title was Gikō. He was appointed Vice M... |
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Tokugawa Yoshinao |
(16-5) Lord of Kōfu Domain (in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)and Owari Nagoya Domain (in Aichi Prefecture) in the early Edo period. His style was Shikei, and his posthumous name was Genkei. He was born as the fifth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1600, and spent his childhood in Suruga P... |
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Tokumitsukyō |
A Shinto-derived religious movement founded by Kanada Tokuaki (1863-1919). Kanada was born in Osaka Prefecture on September 20, 1863, as the eldest son of Kanada Tokuhei. He subsequently succeeded to head of the Kanada household of relatives. In 1871 he became an apprentice to Asa... |
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Tomobe Yasutaka |
(1667-174) A scholar of Suika Shintō of the mid-Edo period. His common name was Buemon, and his epistolary names were Shiansai and Yaegaki no Okina. Born at Shinagawa in Edo on the first day of the twelfth month of 1667, Tomobe began studying Neo-Confucianism under Satō Naokata (1650... |
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Tomokiyo Yoshisane |
Founder of Shintō Tenkōkyo. His original name was Kyūgo, and epistolary names included Tenkō, Mokusan, Joyō, and Banzan. Tomokiyo was born on October 9, 1888, in what is today Yamaguchi City, and reports state that at the age of eleven, he had the experience of kamikakushi , namely, b... |
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Tsuchimikado Shintō |
A form of Shinto formulated in the mid-Edo period by the head of court diviners ( onmyō no kami ) Tsuchimikado Yasutomi. Yasutomi synthesized the astrological and calendrical theories transmitted by the Onmyōdō specialists of the Abe clan (later known as Tsuchimikado) that origin... |
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Tsuchimikado Yasutomi |
(1655-1717) Scholar of the way of Yin-Yang ( onmyō ), and Shintoist of the mid-Edo period, who formulated and integrated Tsuchimikado Shintō. He is generally thought to have been born on the twentieth day of the sixth month, 1655, but one theory holds that he was actually born on the ei... |
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Tsunoda Tadayuki |
(1834-1918) Chief Priest ( gūji ) of the shrine Atsuta Jingū. His common name was Yoshisaburō, and he used the epistolary names ( gō ) Ibukinoya and Shizumenoiwamuro, among others. He was born on the sixth day of the eleventh month, 1834, in Iwamurata, Kita Saku District, Shinano Prov... |
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