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Hachidai Ryūō Daishizen Aishinkyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Ishikawa Sen (1886-1961). Born in Hokkaido, Ishikawa established various businesses, including a restaurant and clothing store. While undergoing abdominal surgery in 1930, Ishikawa became possessed ( kamigakari ) by a spirit that comm... |
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Hachidai Ryūōjin Hakkō Seidan |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Demura Ryūsei (1926-). Born in Hokkaido, Demura was devout from an early age and regularly used to clean the Inari and other small shrines in his area. It is reported that from the age of ten he developed spiritual powers and began to deliver var... |
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Hachirakukai Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religious movement started by Ogawa Kōichirō (1919-80). It is said that Ogawa had been gripped by nebulous fears of death since early childhood due to the various misfortunes that had befallen successive generations of his family. For these reasons he came int... |
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Haga Yaichi |
(1867-1927) Scholar of Japanese literature in the Meiji and Taisho eras, born on the fourteenth day of the fifth month of 1867 in the castle town of Fukui. Haga's father Masaki had studied National Learning ( kokugaku ) under Hirata Kanetane and Japanese poetry ( waka ) with Tachibana ... |
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Hagiwara Kaneyori |
(1588-166) (The characters of his given name can also be read Kanetsugu.) A proponent of Yoshida Shintō in the early Edo period. Born in 1588 as the eldest son of Yoshida Kaneharu, then Superintendant of Divinities ( jingi kanrei , the highest ranking priest in Yoshida Shintō). At the ... |
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Hakke Shintō |
The Shintō tradition transmitted by the Shirakawa Hakuō House, traditionally in charge of the post of superintendent ( haku or kami ) of the Ministry of Deities (Jingikan). Also called Shirakawa Shintō. Originally, the post of superintendent of the Jingikan was often held by the Na... |
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Hanawa Hokiichi |
(1746-1821) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the mid-Edo period. Born on the fifth day of the fifth month of 1746 to a peasant family in the village of Hokino in Musashi Province (present-day Kodama Town, Saitama Prefecture). His lineage name was Ogino, and he had the style... |
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Hasegawa Kakugyō |
(1541?-1646?) Practitioner of Fuji shinkō , the devotional cult to Mount Fuji, who lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama into the early Edo periods. He is claimed as the original founder of the practices of the confraternity Fujikō and religious sects Fusōkyō and Jikkōkyō. His childho... |
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Hatano Takao |
(1798-1882) Member of the Shinto priesthood ( shinshoku ) and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo and early Meiji periods, Hatano used the epistolary names Sakaki, Eijuen and Hitachi, among others. Born 1798 in the village of Nishigata in Hoi District, Mikawa Pr... |
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Hattori Nakatsune |
(1757-1824) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Born to a family who were members of the police force ( yoriki ) in the town of Matsusaka in Ise (present-day Mie Prefecture). His common name was Ginai, and he went by the epistolary name Suigetsu. In 1785, at t... |
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Hayashi Razan |
(1583-1657) Confucian scholar of the early Edo period. His formal names included Nobukatsu, and he had the style Shishin (written with two different sets of Sino-Japanese characters), together with Radō and other epistolary names. His common names included Dōshun, and he was giv... |
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Hayashi Ōen |
(1797-187) Imperial loyalist and scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. Born on the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month of 1797 as the third son of Hayashi Mataemon Michihide, samurai retainer of the Kumamoto Domain, in the Kumamoto castle town of Yamazaki ... |
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Hi no Oshie |
Teaching of the Sun . A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Sakuma Nikkō (1884-1954; Nikkō means "sun-light"). An affectionate and filial son, Sakuma developed an interest in the afterlife, the existence of the soul and the reality of divine beings ( kami ) after the d... |
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Hikari Kyōkai |
A new religion derived from Ōmoto. It was founded by the painter Okamoto Tenmei (1897-1963), who had been the senior editor of the periodical published by Ōmoto between 1923 and 1935. Okamoto's separation from Ōmoto and his own, independent religious activities were initiated by t... |
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Hirata Atsutane |
(1776-1843) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo period. He had numerous epistolary names, including Daigaku and Ibukinoya, and together with Kada no Azumamaro, Kamo no Mabuchi, and Motoori Norinaga, he is numbered as one of the "four great kokugaku schol... |
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Hirata Kanetane |
(1799-188) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the late Edo and early Meiji eras. Born in 1799 in Niiya, Iyo Province (present-day Ehime Prefecture), Hirata's original lineage name was Midorikawa. In 1824 he married Hirata Atsutane's daughter Chie and subsequently becam... |
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Hirayama Seisai |
(1815-9) Founder of the Shinto sect Shintō Taiseikyō and first Superintendent ( kanchō ) of Ontakekyō. He was born in 1815 as the second son of Kurooka Katsuensai, domainal instructor in swordsmanship ( kendō ) for the Miharu Domain (in present-day Fukushima Prefecture). At the age ... |
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Hizuki no Miya |
A new religion of Shinto origin, founded by Fujimoto Toshinari (1930-1989). The founding of the religion is dated from January 11, 1956, when Fujimoto received the following revelation from the kami Amaterasu sumeōmikami: "As currently existing religions are not true, I wi... |
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Hokke Shintō |
Shinto doctrines promoted by the Nichiren sect of Buddhism. From the time of its founder, the Nichiren sect has been very active in incorporating kami cults within its own system. Its Shinto doctrines as they are known today, however, were systematized between the late Muromachi an... |
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Honaga Mosuke |
(1881-1932) A Shinto scholar (D.Lit) active in the late Meiji and early Showa eras. Born June 20, 1881, in the village of Ōsaki in Atsumi District, Aichi Prefecture, as the eldest son of Honaga Tokushirō and mother Matsu. After graduating from the First Higher School, Honaga entered ... |
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