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Kakei Katsuhiko |
(1872-1961) A Shinto intellectual and scholar of public law from the Meiji to the Showa eras. Born on the twenty-eighth day of the eleventh month of 1872 in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Law, he studied administrative law in Ge... |
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Kakushin Shūkyō Nipponkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion. The group's origins go back to 1940, when the "Father-deity Kotoshironushi no ōkami" descended upon Chitose Makami (1879-1986), revealing her previous lives and imparting divine powers to her. For the next ten years, Chitose prepared h... |
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Kamei Koremi |
(1825-85) Lord of Tsuwano Domain in Iwami Province (present-day Shimane Prefecture) in the late Edo and early Meiji eras. Son of Arima Yorinori, lord of Kurume Domain in Chikugo Province (present-day Fukuoka Prefecture), Kamei was born in 1825 in the domain's Edo residence. He was ... |
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Kamo no Mabuchi |
(1697-1769) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) of the mid-Edo period. Known as one of the "Four Great kokugaku Scholars" ( kokugaku shitaijin ), Kamo was born in 1697 in the domain of Enshū Hamamatsu (in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture) as the third son of Okabe Mas... |
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Kamo no Norikiyo |
(1798-1861) Shintoist and proponent of Uden Shintō in Edo in the late Edo period. Also known as Umetsuji Norikiyo. Born in 1798 to the Umetsuji family of priests at the shrine Kamo Wake Ikazuchi Jinja in Kyoto. At fifteen years of age he followed his father into the Shinto priesthood an... |
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Kannagarakyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Mizuno Fusa (1883-1970). Fusa was born in Hiroshima Prefecture to parents who had earlier produced nine children, all of whom had either been premature births, stillborn, or died young. After making daily visits to a Koyasu Kannon ("e... |
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Kashima Noribumi |
(1839-191) Imperial loyalist and member of the Shinto priesthood ( shinshoku ) in the late Edo and Meiji periods. Born on the thirteenth day of the first month of 1839 as the eldest son of Kashima Noritaka, who was Senior Chief Priest ( daigūji; see gūji ) of the shrine Kashima Jingū in Hi... |
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Katō Genchi |
(1873-1965) Shinto and religious studies scholar of the Taisho and Showa eras. Born June 17, 1873, in a True Pure Land (Jōdo Shinshū) Buddhist temple in Tokyo. After graduating in philosophy from the Department of Letters at Tokyo Imperial University, he served as professor at an ar... |
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Kawabe Kiyonaga |
(161-88) Priest ( shikan ) at the Grand Shrine of Ise in the early Edo period. Descendent of the Ōnakatomi lineage, traditional inheritors of the office of Senior Chief Priest ( daigūji ) at Ise, Kawabe was part of a branch lineage and thus became a Buddhist acolyte for a period early in l... |
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Kawai Kiyomaru |
(1848-1917) Shintoist and promoter of social education in the Meiji and Taisho eras. Born into a family of hereditary Shinto priests in Tōhaku District, Tottori Prefecture. Kiyomaru inherited the family priestly occupation after his father's death, serving concurrently in the ... |
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Kawamura Hidene |
(1723-92) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and samurai retainer of the Owari Nagoya Domain in the mid-Edo period. His styles included Kimifuka and Nobuyuki, common names included Kin'nosuke and Fukutarō, and he used the epistolary names Kyokushū and Ritsuan. He was born t... |
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Kawatsura Bonji |
(1862-1929) Founder of the religious foundation Miitsukai, focused on the practice of misogi or ablutions in water. His formal name was Tsuneji, and he also went by the family name Hasuike. He used the epistolary names Denzan and Kaorinoya, and went by the name Renge Hōin while a disc... |
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Keichū |
(164-171) Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect and pioneer of the early modern school of National Learning ( kokugaku ). Born in Amagasaki, Settsu Province (present-day Hyōgo Prefecture) as the second son of Shimogawa Motoyoshi, a retainer to Lord Aoyama, castellan of Amagasaki Cast... |
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Keikōin Seijun |
(d. 1566) Buddhist nun of the Warring Provinces ( sengoku ) period (ca. 1467-1568). Born in Kumano (present-day Wakayama Prefecture), Seijun was third matriarch of the Buddhist convent Keisōin in Uji, Ise Province (present-day Mie Prefecture), and the Dharma-heir of Chikei Shōn... |
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Keikōin Shūyō |
( d. 1611) Buddhist nun of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (ca. 1574-1600) and fourth matriarch of the Buddhist convent Keikōin in Uji, Ise Province (present-day Mie Prefecture). Lamenting the harm suffered by the Grand Shrines of Ise (Ise Jingū) due to the civil wars of the period, Shūy... |
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Kikke Shintō |
The Shinto teachings transmitted by the Tachibana clan, said to have originated with Tachibana Moroe (684-787), but in fact likely organized only after the beginning of the Edo period. Kikke Shinto became widely known during the mid-Edo Hōei era (1704-1710), when Tamaki Masahide... |
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Kikueikai Kyōdan |
A religious movement founded in 1928 by the sculptor of Buddhist images Hayashi Shikō (1901-88). Shikō claimed an experience in which a golden sphere with the form of a "nine-star divination pattern" came floating towards him,1 after which he began to engage in spiritua... |
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Kitabatake Chikafusa |
(1293-1354) Courtier of the late Kamakura and North-South Court (Nanboku) periods. Born in 1293 as the son of Kitabatake Moroshige (1270-1321) of the Murakami branch of the Genji clan. Highly trusted by Emperor Godaigo, he was appointed to the position of Major Councilor ( dainago... |
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Kiyohara Nobukata |
(1475-155) Confucianist and Shintoist of the Warring Provinces ( sengoku ) period. He used the epistolary name Kansuiken, and was given the religious name Sōyū. Born 1475 as the third son of Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511), he was adopted by Kiyohara Munekata. Nobukata was sequentia... |
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Kogi Shintō |
A movement founded by the Shinto priest Kuwabara Yachio (1910-) after World War II. Upon graduating from Kokugakuin University in 1941, Kuwabara served as head of Ōyamatsumi Shrine, and then became a Suppliant Priest ( negi ) at Kashima Shrine and was in charge of the Kashima Nationa... |
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