Osuke Tsuda [ja] (下山応助) was a founder of a Sect Shinto group.

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Around 1868, at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, the religious administration of the new Meiji government issued the Shinto-Buddhist Separation Order, resulting in the Haibutsu Kishaku and the restoration of the Unity of ritual and government system in the same year. The Taikyo Institute was established in 1872 (Meiji 5) as a missionary organization, but was dissolved in 1875 (Meiji 8). Instead, the Shinto side established the Bureau of Shinto Affairs in the same year, to which the originally disparate folk belief religions belonged, and those denominations that met certain conditions, such as the number of followers, were officially recognized as "independent denominations". This was the beginning of the denominational Shinto.

Beginning with Kurozumikyō and Shinto Shusei in 1876 (9th year of Meiji), and in 1886, Bureau of Shinto Affairs (later renamed Shinto Taikyo), and in 1899 (32nd year of Meiji), it was reorganized into a denomination called Jingu-kyo renamed Ise Shrine Offering Association.[1][a] In 1908, Tenrikyo was founded, and by the time of 1908, there were a total of 13 schools (14 schools in total if the breakaway "Jingu-kyo" is included).

Timeline of member organizations and 2020 statistics[b]
Denomination Founder Founding date Date of Independence believers[2] Priests[2] Shrines and churches[2]
Ontake-kyo Osuke Tsuda [ja] September 1882 42,550 1,119 346

After the war, Oomoto also joined the federation, but Tenrikyo and Shinto Taiseikyo withdrew from the federation, so the federation now has 12 affiliated groups.

There are five main groups of Sect Shinto[3]

Tenrikyo is now classified by the Agency for Cultural Affairs as one of the various religions, not as a Shinto denomination. [4]

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  1. ^ One of the predecessor organizations that formed the Association of Shinto Shrines after the war.
  2. ^ Statistics source excluding Tenrikyo and Tensha Tsuchimikado Shinto

References edit

  1. ^ 戦後に神社本庁を形成する前身組織の1つ。
  2. ^ a b c "Religious Almanac" (2020 edition)
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Kyōha Shintō | Japanese religion". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  4. ^ 文化庁編さん 2011, pp. 5–6.