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Byakkō Shinkōkai |
A new religion founded by Goi Masahisa (1916-1980) from the Ōmoto and Seichō no Ie lineages, with an emphasis on two characteristic Ōmoto doctrines, the notion that all religions emanate from the same root ( bankyō dōkon ), and the principle of world peace. Following World War II, Goi... |
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Chikakusan Minshukyō Kyōdan |
A religious group based on the mountain-worship cult of Kiso Ontake (Mount Ontake in the Kiso region). It began in the mid-Meiji era when Nehashi Umetarō (1868-1922) founded the Chikaku Kōsha (Chikaku Religious Association). When Nehashi died in 1922, his third son Shigefumi, who ... |
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Chūshinkai |
" A religious movement focused on divination and onomancy and founded by Kumazaki Ken'ō (1881-1961). While working at primary schools and in the newspaper business, Kumazaki had developed a unique system of shorthand, and engaged in the study of divination, fortune tel... |
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Daihizenkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Orimo Nami (1893-1966). Born in Saitama Prefecture, Orimo grew up in difficult circumstances, working from a very young age as a nursemaid, live-in servant, and in a spinning mill. After marrying she worked at numerous occupations with her ... |
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Deguchi Nao |
(1837-1918) Founder of the religious group Ōmoto . Born in the castle town Fukuchiyama in Tanba Province (present-day Kyoto Prefecture), Nao was the eldest daughter of carpenter Kirimura Gorōsaburō and his wife Soyo, but was later adopted into the Deguchi household. Her husband M... |
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Deguchi Nobutsune |
(1657-1714) A priest of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) of the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in the mid-Edo period, with the priestly rank of gon-negi (Provisional Suppliant). His original lineage name was Watarai, he had the common names Gondayū and Tatewaki, and used the epistolary name... |
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Deguchi Nobuyoshi |
(1615-9) A priest ( shinkan ) of the Outer Shrine (Gekū) at the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) in the mid-Edo period. His original clan name was Watarai, he had the common names Yosanjirō, Shinano, and Gudayū, and his epistolary names were Chokuan and Kōkodō. His formal name was Nobuy... |
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Deguchi Onisaburō |
(1871-1948) Systematizer and co-founder of the new religion Ōmoto. Known within the group as Seishi (Holy Teacher), he was born July 12, 1871, in Anao village in the Kuwata district of Tanba Province (present-day Kyoto Prefecture), as the eldest son of Ueda Kichimatsu and his wife Y... |
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En no Ozunu |
(n.d.) A thaumaturge thought to have lived on Mount Katsuragi (or Kazuraki) in Yamato Province in the second half of the seventh century and later known as the founder of Shugendō. Also known also as En no Ubasoku (En the upasaka [a Buddhist acolyte]) and En no Gyōja (En the ascetic), he ... |
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Ennōkyō |
A new religious movement founded by Fukada Chiyoko (1887-1925). Fukada began her religious activities in 1919 after receiving a divine revelation that directed her to serve as the messenger of the gods and their vessel on earth. For five and one-half years, Fukada employed her own u... |
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Fujii Takanao |
(1764-184) Shinto priest (shikan) and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Known commonly as Ozen, he went by the epistolary names Matsunoya and Shōsai. Born in Miyauchi, Kayō District, Bitchū Province (present-day Okayama Prefecture) in 1764, Takana... |
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Fujitani Mitsue |
(1768-1823) Scholar of the Japanese language of the late Edo period. Born in Kyoto, where he was a resident, Fujitani was the son of Fujitani Nariakira. His common names included Gengo and Sen'emon, his formal names were Narihisa, Narimoto, and Mitsue, and his epistolary names incl... |
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Fujitani Nariakira |
(1738-79) Scholar of the Japanese language in the mid-Edo period. Born in 1738 in Kyoto to Minagawa Shundō, an avid amateur scholar of the merchant class; his elder brother was the famed Confucianist Minagawa Kien (1734-1807). His common name was Sen'emon, his style was Chūtatsu, a... |
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Fukko Shintō |
"Restoration Shinto," also known as "Pure Shinto" (Jun Shintō), "Ancient-Way Shinto" (Kodō Shintō), "Nativist Shintō" (Kokugaku Shintō), and "Shintō Fukkoha" (the Shintō Restoration Faction). This term is usually em... |
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Fukuba Bisei (Yoshishizu) |
(1831-197) Scholar of National Learning ( Kokugaku ) of the late Edo and early Meiji eras. Born in 1831 as the son of Fukuba Yoshitada, a samurai retainer of the Tsuwano Domain (in present-day Shimane Prefecture). Fukuba specialized in the study of kokugaku as a student at the Yōrōkan ... |
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Furukawa Mitsura |
(181-83) Shinto priest ( shinshoku ) and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo) period and early Meiji era. His common names were Sohei, Shōsaku, and Mino no Kami, and he used the epistolary name Kyūkodō. Born in Edo in 1810, he was a disciple of Hirata Kanetane. Durin... |
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Fusōkyō |
One of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto. It was organized as a group by Shishino Nakaba (1844-84) from the Satsuma domain based on the mountain cult to Mount Fuji ( Fuji shinkō ) founded by Hasegawa Kakugyō (1541?-1646?), but it developed as a religious group with strong Shinto colo... |
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Godaiin Mahashira |
(185-79) Born 1805 in Kagoshima as the son of a scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ), he interacted with Kagoshima domain kokugaku scholars Shirao Kunihashira and Hatta Tomonori, and in 1839 became a disciple of Hirata Atsutane in Edo. In 1841, the low-ranking kobankaku samura... |
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Gonda Naosuke |
(189-87) Late-Tokugawa and early Meiji-era scholar of Hirata Atsutane's school of National Learning ( kokugaku ). Born in 1809 in Iruma District in the province of Musashi (present-day Saitama Prefecture) as the son of physician Gonda Naonori. At the age of nineteen, Naosuke move... |
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Goryū Shintō |
A Shinto teaching belonging to the broader tradition of Ryōbu Shintō. "Goryū" originally referred to the Buddhist Dharma lineage of retired sovereigns and other retired members of the imperial house. The six basic lineages in the Kōtaku branch of Shingon esotericism i... |
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