Texts and reader guides for Ōmoto, the Japanese new religion of Deguchi Nao and Deguchi Onisaburō — revelation, world reconstruction, spirit journeys, art, Esperanto, and the vast untranslated scriptural corpus behind the Reikai Monogatari.
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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. (1)
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Introduction to Oomoto — An ethnographic introduction to Ōmoto (大本), the Japanese new religion founded in 1892 by Deguchi Nao — a movement of catastrophic prophecy, artistic mysticism, and universal religion, twice destroyed by the Japanese state and rebuilt, whose influence reaches from the ethics of Aikido to the roots of several major new religions.
Izu no Me Shinyu — Divine Revelations of Izu no Me — A complete Good Works Translation of the thirty-seven-part Izu no Me Shinyu, a 1918–1919 Ōmoto revelation sequence written through Deguchi Onisaburō, with the complete Japanese source text.