kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)
ha (faction, group, party, clique, sect, school)
kyôha (sect; denomination)
shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
tô | dô | michi (way, path, teachings, the way of proper conduct)
shintô (kami way, indigenous-based spiritual practices engaged in by many Japanese)
ren (take along, lead, join, connect, party, gang, clique)
gô (fit, suit, join)
kai (meeting, meet, party, association, interview, join)
rengôkai (association, federation)

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❖ kyôha shintô Association (Sectarian shintô Association)
❖ Twelve of the original thirteen remain; tenrikyô removing itself as being shintô
❖ ômotokyou was a later addition; bringing the number back up to thirteen

fu (aid, help, assist)
sô (mulberry)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1882)
❖ Mountain-worship sect organized by shishino nakaba
❖ Based on fuji shinkô – beliefs & practices associated with fuji-san (Mt. fuji)

i. (exit, leave)
zumo (cloud)
izumo (place name)
oo | tai (great, large, big)
yashiro | sha (association, shrine)
ooyashiro | taisha (grand shrine)
kyou (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1882)
❖ Organized by senge takatomi
❖ Influenced by fukkô shintô
❖ Also pronounced izumo taishakyô

jik | jitsu (reality, truth)
kô (going, journey)
jikkô (practice, realization, implementation)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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jik | jitsu (truth, reality)
kô (going, journey)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1882)
❖ Mountain-worship sect organized by shibata hanamori
❖ Based on fuji shinkô – beliefs & practices associated with fuji-san (Mt. fuji)

kon (gold)
kô (ray, light)
konkô (golden light)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1859)
❖ Faith-healing sect founded by akazawa bunji
❖ Sect has branches in the Americas
❖ Worship konkô daijin – kami associated with Yin-Yang divination

kuro (black)
zumi | sumi (dwell, reside, live, inhabit)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)
kurozumi (family or surname)

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❖ (1876)
❖ Faith-healing sect founded by kurozumi munetada
❖ One of the earliest shintô-derived new religions

misogi (shintô purification with water ceremony)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1894)
❖ Purification sect
❖ Offshoot of a group founded by inoue masakane

on | mi (honorable, manipulate, govern)
take (peak)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1882)
❖ Centered around ontake shinkô – beliefs & practices associated with ontake-san (Mt. ontake)
❖ Organized by shimoyama osuke
❖ Formerly known as mitakekyô

oo (great, large, big)
moto (origin, source, base, basis, foundation, root, cause)
oomoto (foundation)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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oo (great, large, big)
moto (origin, source, base, basis, foundation, root, cause)

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❖ (1892)
❖ Founded by deguchi nao and deguchi onisaburô
❖ As a branch of konkôkyô
❖ Later broke with group
❖ Joined kyôha shintô rengôkai in 1956
❖ Key concept is reishu taijû
❖ Mainly monotheistic – see other kami as parts of oomoto sume oomikami
❖ Also called oomoto

oo (great, large, big)
moto (origin, source, base, basis, foundation, root, cause)
sume (emperor)
oo (great, large, big)
mi (honorable, govern)
kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)

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❖ shintô creator kami said to have created the spiritual world first and afterwards to have created the material world

rei (spirits, soul)
shu (main thing, principal, lord, chief, master)
tai (body, substance, object, reality)
jû (subordinate, secondary, obey, submit to, comply, follow, incidental)

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❖ (literally: spirit main thing, body subordinate)
❖ Stresses primacy of spiritual over material

shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
ri (logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1884)
❖ Founded by sano tsunehiko
❖ Influenced by fukkô shintô

shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
shû (learn)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1882)
❖ Purification sect founded by yoshimura masamochi
❖ Focused on proclaiming kaminagara no michi

shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
tô | dô | michi (way, path, teachings, the way of proper conduct)
shintô (kami way, indigenous-based spiritual practices engaged in by many Japanese)
shû (discipline, conduct oneself well, study, master)
sei (turn into, become, get, grow, reach)
shûsei (revising to perfection)
ha (sect, school, faction, group, party, clique)

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❖ (1876)
❖ Founded by nitta kuniteru
❖ Mixes shintô teachings with Confucian ethics

shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
tô | dô | michi (way, path, teachings, the way of proper conduct)
shintô (kami way, indigenous-based spiritual practices engaged in by many Japanese)
tai (great, large, big)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ Before WWII known simply as shintô
❖ (1886)
❖ Influenced by fukkô shintô
❖ Organized as coordinating and shrine-supporting center of shintô sects after meiji Restoration

shin | kami (that which inspires feelings of reverence, awe, gratitude, fear/terror)
tô | dô | michi (way, path, teachings, the way of proper conduct)
shintô (kami way, indigenous-based spiritual practices engaged in by many Japanese)
tai (great, large, big)
sei (turn into, become, get, grow, reach)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1882)
❖ Mixes shintô teachings with Confucian ethics
❖ Organized by hirayama seisai

ten (heavens, sky)
ri (logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth)
kyô (teach, faith, doctrine)

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❖ (1908)
❖ Faith-healing sect founded by nakayama miki
❖ In 1970 declared they were no longer a shintô organization