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Yoshimura Masamochi |
(1839-1915) Founder of the religion Shinshūkyō. The second son of the warrior Yoshimura Daiji, Yoshimura Masamochi was born on the nineteenth day of the ninth month, 1839, in Mimasaka (present-day Okayama Prefecture). His father had studied Western (Dutch) medicine, and was emp... |
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Ōgimachi Kinmichi |
(1653-1733) An advocate of Suika Shintō of the mid-Edo era, born on the twenty-sixth day of the sixth month of 1653 as the last child of Ōgimachi Takatoyo, Provisional Major Councilor ( gon-dainagon , a high court official). Kinmichi used the epistolary names Fūsuiō and Fūsuiken, an... |
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Ōishigori Masumi |
(1833-1913) Practitioner of genreigaku , or investigation of the spirit-power of words ( kotodama ). His lineage name was Mochizuki, and he had the childhood name of Haruo, then was given the name Daisuke Kōmu after his coming of age. Born in the eleventh month of 1833 in Ueno in Iga Pro... |
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Ōkuni Takamasa |
(1792-1871) Scholar of National Learning ( kokugaku ) and advocate of a form of Japanese nativism called Honkyō hongaku in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Eldest son of Imai Hideka, samurai retainer of the Tsuwano Domain in Iwami Province (in present-day Shimane Prefecture), ... |
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Ōtori Sessō |
(1814-194) Second-generation Superintendent ( kanchō ) of Ontake-kyō, one of the thirteen sects of prewar Shinto. Born on the first day of the first month of 1814 in Innoshima, Bingo Province (present-day Hiroshima Prefecture). Originally a Buddhist monk-priest of the Sōtō Zen s... |
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Ōyama Tameoki |
(1651-1713) Proponent of Suika Shintō during the mid-Edo period. Born in 1651 in Ii District, Yamashiro Province (present-day Fukushima Prefecture) as the third son of Matsumoto Tameyoshi, priest ( kannnushi ) at the shrine Inari Jinja in Fushimi, Kyoto. At the age of three, Tameo... |
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