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Historical Witnesses

Historical English-language witness texts, archival reports, and contemporary outsider accounts useful for reading the early public reception of Oomoto.

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Texts

Omoto-Kyo — An Account of One of Japan's Popular FaithsA 1920 account of Ōmoto-kyō by a Japanese scholar writing for The Japan Chronicle — a contemporaneous Western-educated observer's portrait of the movement at the moment of its first national prominence, before either suppression. Contains translated passages from the Ofudesaki, the full ten-article Credo, and period descriptions of the chinkon-kishin practice and the Ayabe compound.