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"Centre Of The World"
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Tenrikyo Sect Says That Japan Is The Middle Of The Universe
(BY GUENTHER STEIN)
Japan's meteoric rise to power; horn-rimmed glasses. He wore a has been accompanied by a re simple kimono without any sign vival of faith in her divine mission of his rank We shook hands, Within the ancient Shinto religion and immediately began a business. a number of new spiritual move-like discussion of the sect, ments have arisen, which, joining faith patriotism, serve to for- tify the imperialist spirit of me dern Japan.
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adherents.
THE STORY
This is the story of Japan's latest revivialist
movement. Al- most exactly one hundred years
Among these movements Ten- rikyo, sect numbering eight go the son of a wealthy farmer in a little village near Nara was million
sowing wheat. Suddenly a dread- significant.
rul pain paralysed his foot. He was taken home; the physician failed to help him, and an exorcist was called in.
the 30st It claims to be a world religion, and has begun to send missionaries abroad.
The little town Tambaichi, the Mecca of the new faith, is proudly termed "the centre of the world" I found Tambaichi in the beauti- ful hill country surrounding the ancient imperial city of Nara, not far from the great cotton centre, Osaka, The town itself presents a typical Japanese scene, a maze of narrow lanes; small wooden houses. overflowing shops, Crowds of children, shouting street vend- ors, and busy housewives carrying bables en; their backs. Presently I notice groups of uniformed women They bearing coloured badges. were novices of the Tenrikyo priesthood.
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Using a medium to reach the patient's soul, the faith-bealer succeeded. But the pain return- ed. Again the exorcist was called and as he had been unable to bring his medium, the young man's mother, Migi Nakayama. took her place.
She had hardly entered the trance when she assumed # solemn. prophetic attitude sund pronounced message of salya- tion: "I am the General of Hea- ven, the original God," exclaimed the woman. "God has descended at the appointed time that he
ail men. may save
I am bis body."
"BIBLE" OF THE SECT
So the peasant' woman became the founder of a new movement claiming to offer salvation to the world. The revelations and psalms
ress-like bulidings. The picture suggested an American university of the most modern type rather shan the sacred place of an Astatic religion. The large brick-written by her have become the and-stone bulldings, standing each 12 a pleasant expanse of lawn, contained the colleges. llbraries, and administrative dices of the Tenrikyo sect.
In the background was a group of temples, erected, in curious contrast with the secular bulld- ings, in the rich, gabled style of the Shinto tradition...
It was obvious that the "holy city," as the vast compound is called by its inhabitants, houses an exceedingly efficient and weal thy organization.
Tenrikyo is the youngest of the 14 sects of Shinto; but it is by far the largest and richest among them. I was received by a group of young college graduatea, "typl cal Japanese intellectuals. They were in charge of the missionary department, the schools, and the great Ubrusy of scientific and philosophicul books which * famous throughout the country. The young officials of the sect speak fluent English, In their studies I saw book shelves stacked with the classics of England France, and Germany, and with
"bible" of the Tenrikyo sect. The chief doctrine of the teaching is that Japan is the centre of the world. and that an admission unique in Japanese religions-all nations are equally children of the Father, and should therefore be given the blessings of the true
Tenrikyo) faith.
For decades the sect remained in the obscurity of the villages. Its chance came with the popular reaction to the materialism intro- duced by the Westernisation of the country. Since the World War, mysticism has attracted in- creasing numbers of Japanese people, and Tenrikyo was carried on the crest of the wave. Apårt from the mystic belief in the divine message, the Tenrikyo re- ligion consists of commandments common to most human faiths, It counsels the faithful to help each other, to lead a cheerful life, to respect national institutions and the social order and to main. tain the traditional ancestor, wor- ship. There is also a belief, not particularly stressed, in the trans- migration of souls. In short, the an astounding selection of modern | religion is simple. tolerant and European and American litera comfortable. ture. In the administrative omices grave young people in uniforms were at work on hundreds typewriters and calculating ma- chines,
of
AN ILLUSTRATION
A typical illustration was given to me by my host. "In a cotton mill the girl workers complained that their dormitories were haunt- THE CHIEF TEMPLE
ed by a ghost which appeared My obliging guides next led me every night to tidy the cloak- to the chief temple, an impressive rooms. It was assumed that the structure of light cedar wood. Bhost of a char-woman had been Along endless cloisters opening on
charged with this work in order charming gardens, over floors of to put the girls to shame. One high polished parquet, we arrived night, however, the ghost was at the inner gates. The temple caught, and turned out to be a "nave, supported by wooden pillars young follower of Tenrikyo, „The and panelled throughout in po- girl believed that every untidy lished, light-coloured wood, had place must cause untidy thoughts, the size of a cathedral. A
and one low
could not cleanse 'one's screen separated, the kneeling conscience without clearing up congregation, consisting mainly of one's house. The charwomen be- women, from the priests who were ing too busy in the evening, she conducting the "service to the had done the work "for the sake sound of muffled drums. From of the Father." "From that day,” time to time the congregation rose my informant added, "the factory for a short, solemn dance. Al-paid higher, wages to Tenrikyo though there were several hun dreds of people present. the huge auditorium, appeared almost em-
pty.
AN AUDIENCE WITH THE HIGH PRIEST
girls."
**! 60,000- FRIESTS
The High Priest, who had talk- ed with perfect frankness, Is the great grandson of the foundress, the position being hereditary. He News was brought that the told me that the sect had 60,000 High Priest had arrived: by the priests and lay preachers, and Tokio express.. and was ready to controlled large
funds. "Apart recetve me. I was taken to a from its work in Japan, attention modest house of the type which is given to missionary work abroad. Japanese call "gemt-foreign." The There are many Tenrikyo tol- floors were covered with carpets, lowers in China, Manchuria, and the rooms furnished in Western among the Japanese in America. -style:and to the relief of the Since 1927 thirty-six Tenrikyo foreigner there were comfortable churches have been established in armchairs --Tea. was served, with the United States and Canada. cherry cake and Turkish cigaret The Holy Script of the sect tes, in the audiencs room of the contains a sentence which may Patriarch. I had time to note give the cue to its popularity as same reproductions of modern well as to its considerable polld- Trench paintings, and a large cal importance; It runs: "Mithefto radio-gramophone. Then the High there have been – Japan (and Priest arrived, a stoutim man, foreign lands, but hereafter there no more than 30 years old, with shall be naught but Japan,”
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