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Yamatokyō |
A Shinto-derived new religious movement founded by Hozumi Kenkō (1913-76), who had experienced religious practice at the Shugendō center Dewa Sanzan. It began in 1931 when Kenkō established the Yudonosan Kitōjo (Mount Yudono Invocatory Prayer Center). Even today, the group... |
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Yamazaki Ansai |
(1619-1682) An early Edo-period scholar of Confucianism and Shinto. His style was Moriyoshi, his common name was Kaemon, and his epistolary name was Ansai. His posthumous "spirit-shrine" name ( reisha-gō ) was Suika. Born in Kyoto on the ninth day of the twelfth month in ... |
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Yanagita Kunio |
(1875-1962) Founder of modern Japanese folklore studies. Born on July 31, 1875 to the Matsuoka family in Tsujikawa, Tawara Village, Jintō District, Hyōgō Prefecture, the sixth of eight brothers and sisters. His father Matsuoka Misao (otherwise known as Yakusai) was a proponent o... |
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Yano Harumichi |
(1823-87) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the Hirata Atsutane school in the late Edo period and early Meiji era. Born the eldest son of Yano Michimasa, retainer of Iyo Ōzu Domain (in present-day Ehime Prefecture), Yano was an eager student from childhood. In 1845, he trav... |
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Yashiro Hirokata |
(1758-1841) Tokugawa shogunal retainer and scholar of Japanese studies of the late Edo period. His common name was Tarō, his formal name was Akikata (which he later changed to Akitora and Akitake), and he had the epistolary name Rinchi. He was born in 1758 in Edo as the son of Tokugawa r... |
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Yoshida Kanemi |
(1535-161) Head of Yoshida Shintō in the Azuchi-Momoyama period (ca. 1574-1600). Born in 1535 as the eldest son of Yoshida Kanemigi, he was also the older brother of Bonshun. He was at first called Kaneyasu, but later changed his name to Kanemi. In his career at court, he reached the ce... |
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Yoshida Kanemigi |
(1516-1573) Head of Yoshida Shintō in Japan's period of warring states ( sengoku , ca. 1457-1568). Born on the twentieth day of the fourth month (May 21), 1516, as the second son of Kiyohara Nobukata (who was the third son of Yoshida Kanetomo). The Yoshida house was at that time led by Ka... |
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Yoshida Kanetomo |
(1435-1511) Shrine priest of the later Muromachi period, and founder of Yoshida Shintō. Born in 1435 as the son of Yoshida Kanena, the Provisional Senior Assistant Director of Divinities ( jingi gon no taifu ), Yoshida was at first called Kanetoshi, but later changed his name to Kane... |
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Yoshida Shintō |
A body of Shinto theory and a tradition that played a central role in kami matters from the late Muromachi through the early-modern periods. The school was founded by Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511), who called his tradition yuiitsu shintō ("only-one Shintō"), sōgen shin... |
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Yoshikawa Koretari |
(1616-1694) A Shinto scholar of the early Edo period, and founder of Yoshikawa Shintō, whose lineage name can also be read as "Kikkawa," and his formal name as "Koretaru." His other formal names included Motonari, Koretari, and Yoritoki, and his common names ... |
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Yoshikawa Shintō |
A lineage of Shinto formulated in the early Edo period by the Shinto scholar Yoshikawa Koretari (1616-1694). Koretari was originally a merchant from Nihonbashi in Edo, but after studying Shinto matters and waka poetry under Hagiwara Kaneyori (1590-1660), an influential exponen... |
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Yoshimi Yoshikazu |
(1673-1761) A Shinto scholar of the mid-Edo period. The characters for his formal name Yoshikazu can also be read as Kōwa or as Yukikazu. His style ( azana ) was Shirei, and his common names included Sadanosuke and Katsuya. His epistolary names included Kyōken and Fūsuiō. The second s... |
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Yoshimura Masamochi |
(1839-1915) Founder of the religion Shinshūkyō. The second son of the warrior Yoshimura Daiji, Yoshimura Masamochi was born on the nineteenth day of the ninth month, 1839, in Mimasaka (present-day Okayama Prefecture). His father had studied Western (Dutch) medicine, and was emp... |
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Zenrinkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Rikihisa Tatsusai (1906-77). Rikihisa's father Tatsususaburō had been a spirit medium and head of a regional branch of Shintō Jikkōkyō, but after his death, his son Tatsusai vowed to undertake twenty years of practice to save all the suffer... |
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§ Shinto-Derived Religions |
In the modern era Shinto-derived religious organizations can be broadly divided into two types, namely "sectarian Shinto" ( kyōha Shintō ) and "Shinto-derived new religions" ( Shintōkei shinshūkyō ). The term "sectarian Shinto" is widely us... |
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Ōgimachi Kinmichi |
(1653-1733) An advocate of Suika Shintō of the mid-Edo era, born on the twenty-sixth day of the sixth month of 1653 as the last child of Ōgimachi Takatoyo, Provisional Major Councilor ( gon-dainagon , a high court official). Kinmichi used the epistolary names Fūsuiō and Fūsuiken, an... |
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Ōgimachi Shintō |
A lineage of Shinto originating in the transmission of Suika Shinto by Ōgimachi Kinmichi (1653-1733) to the sovereign and court retainers. In 1680, Kinmichi presented a Shinto oath to Yamazaki Ansai, taking up a full-scale study of Suika Shinto, while also engaging in the practice ... |
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Ōishigori Masumi |
(1833-1913) Practitioner of genreigaku , or investigation of the spirit-power of words ( kotodama ). His lineage name was Mochizuki, and he had the childhood name of Haruo, then was given the name Daisuke Kōmu after his coming of age. Born in the eleventh month of 1833 in Ueno in Iga Pro... |
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Ōkanmichi |
A movement of the Tenrikyō lineage. In 1912, Yamada Umejirō (1875-1941), a Tenrikyō teacher fired by a sense of divine inspiration, established various Tenrikyō-derived movements such as the Tenri Kenkyūkai (Tenri Research Society) and the Tenri Sanrinkō (Tenri Sanrin Associa... |
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Ōkuni Takamasa |
(1792-1871) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and advocate of a form of Japanese nativism called Honkyō hongaku in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Eldest son of Imai Hideka, samurai retainer of the Tsuwano Domain in Iwami Province (in present-day Shimane Prefecture), ... |
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