Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō Explained

Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō (Japanese Japanese: 天照皇大神宮教) is a Japanese new religious movement which emerged from Shinto. It was established by Sayo Kitamura (Japanese: 北村 サヨ) (1900–1967), with activities beginning in 1945. The movement includes 450,000 members.^[1] Kitamura claimed possession by Amaterasu under the title Tenshō-Kōtaijin.

Its headquarters are in Tabuse (Japanese: 田布施町, Tabuse-chō), a town in the district of Kumage District, Yamaguchi, Japan.

Followers practice a dance called muga no mai (Japanese: 無我の舞, "Dance of the non-self" or "Dance of the non-ego"), which is why the religion is called the "dancing religion" (Japanese: 踊る宗教, Odoru shūkyō).

See also

• Anatta / Anātman (jap. muga)

Further reading

• The Prophet of Tabuse (1954), published by Tensho-Kotai-Jingu-Kyo, Tabuse, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan.
• Tina Hamrin: Dansreligionen i japansk immigrantmiljö på Hawai'i. Via helbrägdagörare och Jodu shinshu-präster till nationalistisk millennarism. (English summary: The Dancing Religion in a Japanese-Hawaiian Immigrant Environment). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1996. (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion) - Review
• NISHIYAMA Shigeru & FUJII Takeshi: . 1991, 1997 Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
• Clark B. Offner: The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Japanese Cultural Setting (PDF; 2,3 MB), S. 57ff.
• Sayo Kitamura: Tensho Kotai Jingu-Kyo (1): The Dancing Religion, Contemporary Religions in Japan 2 (3), (1961), 26–42
• L. Carlyle May: The Dancing Religion: A Japanese Messianic Sect, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 10 (1), (1954), 119–137

External links

• Tenshō Kōtai Jingūkyō
• Glossary of Shinto Names and Terms

Notes and References

1. Web site: Glossary of Shinto Names and Terms: T. www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp. ja. 2018-10-16.