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Ishinkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Hashiguchi Reizui (1879-1963). Hashiguchi was born in Kagoshima City and worked as an official in the post and telegraphic services. Following the case of high treason revolving around socialist and anarchist Kōtoku Shūsui in 1910, he beg... |
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Itō Rokurobei |
(1829-94) Founder of the new religion Maruyamakyō. Born on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of 1829 in Noborito Village, Tachibana District in the province of Musashi (present-day Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture). The second son of Kiyomiya Genroku, Rokurobei was adopt... |
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Iwakura Tomomi |
(1825-83) Courtier and politician of the late Tokugawa and early Meiji eras. Born on the fifteenth day of the ninth month of 1825 in Kyoto as the second child of court noble Horikawa Yasuchika, he was adopted by Iwakura Tomoyasu. Tomomi was active behind the scenes in the Imperial Cour... |
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Izumo Shin'yū Kyōkai |
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Izumo Ōyashirokyō |
A sectarian Shinto movement founded by Senge Takatomi (1845-1918) and included in the original thirteen pre-war sects of Shinto. Closely involved with matters of government religious administration around the time of the Meiji Restoration and perceiving the prevailing trends ... |
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Izumoji Nobunao |
(165-173) Practitioner of Suika Shintō in the mid-Edo period, and priest at the Kyoto shrine Shimo Goryōsha. Izumoji's lineage name at birth was Inbe, but he also went by the family names Itagaki and Harubara, and later changed it to Izumoji. His common name was Minbu, and he was given ... |
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Izumokyō |
Although not counted as one of the prewar thirteen Shinto sects, Izumokyō is a religious organization with characteristics reminiscent of sectarian Shinto (Kyōha Shintō). It was organized by Kitajima Naganori (1834-93), who was born into the Kitajima family, one of the traditio... |
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Jieidō |
A religious movement in the lineage of Sekai Kyūseikyō, founded by Katsunuma Hisako (1927-), who married into a farming household and became a member of Sekai Kyūseikyō when she was healed of heart disease in 1969. Katsunuma developed paranormal powers and attracted followers, bu... |
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Jihen |
(n.d.) A Buddhist priest of the Tendai sect active in the fourteenth century, Jihen was son of Urabe Kaneaki and elder brother of Kenkō, famed author of Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness). At a young age, Jihen entered the head Tendai temple Enryakuji on Mount Hiei, where he studied T... |
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Jikigyō Miroku |
(1671-1733) Leader of Fujikō, the mid-Edo-period Shinto confraternity dedicated to the Mount Fuji cult. Successor to Hasegawa Kakugyō, the confraternity's founder, and thus responsible for the later lineage of Miroku-kō confraternities. His lay name was Itō Ihei, and he was bo... |
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Jikkōkyō |
One of the thirteen sects of pre-war Shinto. Jikkōkyō was based on Fujidō, founded by Hasegawa Kakugyō (born in Nagasaki, 1541-1646) and known as one of several early-modern mountain cults focused on Mount Fuji ( Fuji shinkō ). Organized as Jikkōsha (Jikkō Association) following t... |
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Jingidōke |
A collective term for lineages engaging in Shinto as their traditional house occupation. In the early period, these included the jingi clans ( jingi shizoku ), namely, clans connected to the Jingikan such as the Nakatomi and Inbe. In the early ninth century, postitions at the Jingik... |
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Jingūkyō |
A Shinto organization established in the Meiji era. While not being included as one of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto, it possessed the characteristics of sect Shinto ( kyōha Shintō ) until the mid-Meiji period. Organized by Urata Nagatami and others, it had as its first Superin... |
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Jiun |
(1718-184) Buddhist priest of the Shingon sect in the mid-Edo period, and founder of Unden Shintō. His formal name was Onkō and his style was Jiun. Born in Osaka as the son of Kōzuki Yasunori (author of Ōbaraekai [Elucidation of the Great Purification Ritual]), Jiun took the tonsure a... |
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Juka Shintō |
Teachings on Shinto as expounded by Japanese Confucianists. These teachings claim the unity of Shinto and Confucianism, or represent amalgamations of the two. With the rise to prominence of Confucianism at the beginning of the early modern period and the simultaneous stagnation ... |
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Jūhachi Shintō |
The principles of Yoshida Shintō expounded by Yoshida Kanetomo, as found in his principal work Essentials of Prime Shinto (Yuiitsu Shintō myōbō yōshū ). Kanetomo divided Shinto into the categories of substance ( tai , the three foundations); function ( yō , the three subtleties); a... |
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Kada no Arimaro |
(176-51) Scholar of philological "evidential learning" ( kōshōgaku ) in the mid-Edo period. Born in 1706 in Kyoto, Arimaro was adopted together with his younger sister Tamiko by his uncle Kada no Azumamaro (1669-1736), who was then residing in Edo. Though suffering fro... |
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Kada no Azumamaro |
(1669-1736) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the mid-Edo era, and known as one of the "Four Great kokugaku Scholars" ( kokugaku shitaijin ). Born in Kyoto in the first month of 1669, as the second son of Hakura Nobuaki, a priest and administrator of the shrine Fus... |
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Kaden Shintō |
The Shinto transmitted by a particular house or lineage. As this is mainly to be seen in the houses of hereditary Shinto priests, known as shinshokuke or shake , it is also called shake Shintō (or shaden Shintō , or densha Shintō ). The term kaden (lit., "lineage-transmission&qu... |
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Kaibara Ekiken |
(163-1714) Confucian scholar of the early Edo period. Known also as a herbalist and educator of commoners. A retainer of the Fukuoka Domain in Chikuzen Province (present-day Fukuoka Prefecture), Kaibara's. His formal name was Atsunobu, his style was Shisei, and his common name was... |
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