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Nihon Jingū Honchō |
A religious movement with characteristics of sectarian Shinto ( kyōha Shintō ) and founded by Nakajima Shūkō (1902-88). Deeply interested in the study of the traditional calendar ( rekigaku ), Yin-Yang, and the theory of five phases of matter ( gogyō ), Nakajima had independently s... |
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Nihon Seidō Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Iwasaki Shōō (1934-). In 1951 Shōō suffered from jaundice and lapsed into a coma, during which he had a mystical experience; from that time it was said he had gained the ability to experience teleportation and foretell natural calamities. In ... |
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Nikkōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion whose founder was Teraguchi Kōjirō (1881-1960). Kōjirō's life of faith began at the age of 22 after he experienced a narrow escape from death, and in March 1904 he founded the Nagao-kō (Nagao religious confraternity) on receiving a revelation from a tu... |
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Ontakekyō |
One of the thirteen sects of Shinto in the prewar period. Centered on the cultic faith in Mount Ontake ( ontake shinkō ), it was organized as a religious sect in response to the religious policies of the early Meiji government. Emerging from the confraternity ( kōsha ) style of early mod... |
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Perfect Liberty Kyōdan (PL Kyōdan) |
Church of Perfect Liberty . A new religion of Shinto origin. The name is frequently abbreviated as merely "PL." Its roots go back to the group Hitonomichi Kyōdan and its founder Miki Tokuharu (1871-1938). Miki had practiced as a Zen monk since he was young. He quit the Buddh... |
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Reiha no Hikari Kyōkai |
A Shinto-derived new religious movement whose founder was Hase Yoshio (1915-84). Born in Tokyo, Hase was sent to China at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, but he was repatriated after falling ill. Although he received medical treatment his condition failed to improve, and he ... |
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Renmonkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Shimamura Mitsu (1831-1904). Shimamura was saved from serious illness by one Yanagida Ichibei, who had studied what he called the "marvelous law of things" ( myōhō no ji , an obvious reference to the "marvelous dharma (or 'l... |
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Renshindō Kyōdan |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Tanaka Jigohei (1886-1973). In 1905 Tanaka entered a special course at Jingū Kōgakkan, the Shinto university at Ise, and after graduating went to Tokyo where he studied Buddhism at Tōyō University's Indian Studies Department. While still ... |
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Samuhara Jinja |
A Shinto-derived new religious movement which began in 1935 when Tanaka Tomisaburō (1868-1967) rebuilt a dilapidated shrine in Okayama. After he had experienced a close brush with death on the frontline during the Russo-Japanese War, Tanaka felt he had received power from a talis... |
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Seichō no Ie |
A Shinto-derived new religion with connections to Ōmoto. Its founder Taniguchi Masaharu (1893-1985) joined Ōmoto in 1918 and worked as an editor for its newsletter Shinreikai, but in the aftermath of the first Ōmoto incident of 1925, he left the movement and joined Asano Wasaburō&... |
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Seikōkyō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Fujita Nobuhiko (1889-1977). Fujita was born in Hiroshima as the eldest son of Fujita Shizukana and Fujita Toku; his mother was said to possess paranormal powers. Fujita became a member of Shinrikyō and in due course became head of that group... |
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Seimeikyō |
A new religion deriving from Sekai Kyūseikyō. In 1955 Kihara Yoshihiko, an Ōmoto devotee from the Sekai Kyūseikyō's branch church Kōtama Daikyōkai, dissolved this group's relationship with Kyūseikyō, declared the group's independence and set up a new religious organization na... |
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Seishin Myōjōkai |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Fujita Motonari (1903-85), who began to engage in independent religious activities in April 1946 after taking office as the head priest ( gūji ) of the In'yōseki Shrine in Fukuyama City in Hiroshima prefecture, One of Fujita's grandfathers ... |
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Sekai Kyūseikyō |
Church of World Messianity . A Shinto-derived new religion that emerged from the Ōmoto lineage. It was founded by Okada Mokichi, the second son of a street vender from the Asakusa district in Tokyo. Okada wanted to be an artist and enrolled in the preliminary courses of an art school, b... |
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Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan |
A new religion deriving from the lineages of Ōmoto and Sekai Kyūseikyō. The founder Okada Kōtama (1901-1974; original given name Yoshikazu) is known as its first generation oshienushi ("teaching master") or sukuinushi ("savior"). In 1959 Kōtama, who serv... |
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Sekai Shindōkyō |
A new religion deriving from Tenrikyō and founded by Aida Hide (1898-1973). Born into a poor family in Niigata prefecture, Aida endured numerous hardships working in the spinning industry, first in Nagoya and subsequently in Takasaki and Tokyo. In 1923 her husband became ill while ... |
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Shidaidō |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Nagahashi Yasuhiko (1895-1981). Its foundation dates from 1931, when Yasuhiko met the spiritualist Matsushita Matsuzō (1873-1947) who was active at the time in Kumamoto. It is said that Yasuhiko had already experienced the gift of clairv... |
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Shin Nihon Shūkyō Dantai Rengōkai |
(Abr. Shinshūren) Federation of New Religious Organizations of Japan , a legally incorporated organization founded by and for new Japanese religious movements. Established in 1951 with a membership of twenty-four groups, the Shinshūren includes new religions derived from bot... |
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Shindō Tenkōkyo |
A Shinto-derived new religion founded by Tomokiyo Yoshizane (1888-1952). Tomokiyo joined Ōmoto in 1918 but left the next year as the result of doubts about the movement, and he developed such antipathy that he came to engage in aggressive attacks on the group. He established his own ... |
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Shinji Shūmeikai |
A Shinto-derived new religion strongly influenced by Sekai Kyūseikyō. Its founder, Koyama Mihoko (1910-), received Sekai Kyūseikyō's ritual of jōrei (spiritual healing and purification) while giving birth in 1940, and became a devotee of the movement the following year. She en... |
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