Ōmoto
Ōmoto ( Japanese 大本 , dt. "Great foundation"), also known as Ōmoto-kyō ( 大本 教 ), is a Japanese religious community that is often viewed as Shinshūkyō (new Japanese religion) and offshoot of Shintō . The religion was founded in 1892 by Nao Deguchi ( 出口 な お , Deguchi Nao ). Since 1956 Ōmoto belongs to the "Association of Shinto Sects ".
The movement's spiritual leaders have always been women. Since 2001 it has been led by its fifth guide, Kurenai Deguchi ( 出口 紅 , Deguchi Kurenai ).
Since the times of its co-founder Onisaburō Deguchi , the planned language Esperanto has played an important role in the writings of the Ōmoto religion. Almost all of the 45,000 active members have learned a little Esperanto and around 1,000 are fluent in the language.
Ōmoto had a mission in Paris from 1925 to 1933 . From here missionaries traveled across Europe to spread the news that Ōnisaburō Deguchi was a Messiah or Maitreya who would unite the world. From 1935 to 1942 the movement experienced severe persecution in Japan and was banned. In 1950 the movement regrouped.
Ōmoto has two major centers near Kyoto . In Ayabe there is a temple, and in Kameoka is a mission in a large park (at the former site of the castle Kameoka), which includes offices, schools and a publishing house and shrines. Art plays an important role in Ōmoto. The members want to make the world more beautiful through art and believe that art brings people closer to the divine.
Mitgliedermoto members believe in several kami . The most important are Kunitokotachi-no-Mikoto ( 国 常 立 尊 ), Ushitora and Hitsujisaru , but also the inventor of Esperanto, LL Zamenhof . However, all these "gods" including Zamenhof are believed to be aspects of a single god. As a rule, members also recognize important religious figures from other religions.
One of the better-known followers of Ōmoto is Ueshiba Morihei , the founder of Aikidō . It is widely believed that Ueshiba's increasing tendency towards pacifism in his later years and the view that aikido should be an "art of peace" were inspired by his relationship with religion. Ōmoto priests hold a ceremony in Ueshiba's honor on April 29 at the Aiki Shrine (合 気 神社Aiki Jinja ) in Iwama .
literature
- Ulrich Lins : The Ômoto movement and radical nationalism in Japan . Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-486-44451-4 , 300 pp. At the same time dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne, 1975/1976
- Emily Groszo's Ooms Women and Millenarian Protest in Meiji Japan: Deguchi Nao and Omotokyo , Cornell University , 1993, ISBN 0939657619
- Bankyo Dokon - Seventy Years of Inter-Religious Activity at Oomoto , Oomoto Foundation , 1997
- Nao Deguchi - A Biography of the Foundress of Oomoto , Based on Kaiso-den by Sakae Ôishi, translated by Charles Rowe and Yasuko Matsudaira, Oomoto Foundation, 1982
- The Great Onisaburo Deguchi , by Kyotaro Deguchi, translated by Charles Rowe, ISBN 4-900586-54-4
- Nordenstorm, L. Ômotos mission på esperanto. En japansk ny religion i förändring från kiliastisk Maitreyaförväntan till religionsdialog. (The Ômoto-Mission in Esperanto. A Japanese new religion changing from chiliastic Ma-itreya-awaiting to religious dialogue.) ( Memento from January 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Esperantoförlaget / Eldona Societo Esperanto. Stockholm, 2002. In Swedish with summaries in English and in Esperanto.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description in the Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed July 30, 2016
- ↑ Tomasz Kamusella: The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe . Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978-0-230-55070-4 , pp. 338-339 .
Web links
- Oomoto - Official Website
- Tsushiro Hirofumi: "Ōmoto" . In: Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugaku-in , December 13, 2005 (English)
- Oomoto participates in Sant'Egidio conference