On a quiet day in eighteen thirty-eight, in rural Japan, a peasant woman named Nakayama Miki reportedly experienced something extraordinary—an event that would echo far beyond her village and transform the spiritual landscape of modern Japan. What began as a personal crisis would soon ripple outward, gathering followers, igniting controversy, and laying the foundation for a new religious tradition. In the late Edo period, when Japan’s countryside pulsed with a mix of local rites, Buddhist influences, and folk healers, few could have predicted that a woman from a farming family would become the revered figure known as Oyasama, or Honored Parent. But according to Tenrikyo’s own accounts, that is exactly what happened.
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